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Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all nations obey king Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments: (1 Maccabees 2, 19)
We will not hearken to the words of king Antiochus, neither will we sacrifice, and transgress the commandments of our law, to go another way. (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
Now as he left off speaking these words, there came a certain Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city of Modin, according to the king's commandment. (1 Maccabees 2, 23)
Moreover the man whom king Antiochus had sent, who compelled them to sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar. (1 Maccabees 2, 25)
And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem in the city of David, that certain men who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them. (1 Maccabees 2, 31)
And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live. (1 Maccabees 2, 33)
And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king's edict, to profane the sabbath day. (1 Maccabees 2, 34)
And he said: I will get me a name, and will be glorified in the kingdom, and will overthrow Judas, and those that are with him, that have despised the edict of the king. (1 Maccabees 3, 14)
And his fame came to the king, and all nations told of the battles of Judas. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
Now when king Antiochus heard these words, he was angry in his mind: and he sent and gathered the forces of all his kingdom, an exceeding strong army. (1 Maccabees 3, 27)
So the king took the half of the army that remained, and went forth from Antioch the chief city of his kingdom, in the hundred and forty-seventh year: and he passed over the river Euphrates, and went through the higher countries. (1 Maccabees 3, 37)
Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenus, and Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends. (1 Maccabees 3, 38)
