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The rest sold all their remaining possessions, at the same time praying the Lord to deliver them from the godless Nicanor, who had sold them even in advance of any encounter- (2 Maccabees 8, 14)
if not for their own sakes, then at least out of consideration for the covenants made with their ancestors, and because they themselves bore his sacred and majestic name. (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
At about the same time, Antiochus was beating a disorderly retreat from Persia. (2 Maccabees 9, 1)
This day of the purification of the Temple fell on the very day on which the Temple had been profaned by the foreigners, the twenty-fifth of the same month, Chislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
They also decreed by public edict, ratified by vote, that the whole Jewish nation should celebrate those same days every year. (2 Maccabees 10, 8)
Gorgias now became general of the area; he maintained a force of mercenaries and a continual state of war with the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
At the same time, the Idumaeans, who controlled important fortresses, were harassing the Jews, welcoming outlaws from Jerusalem and endeavouring to maintain a state of war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
When Maccabaeus and his men learned that Lysias was besieging the fortresses, they and the populace with them begged the Lord with lamentation and tears to send a good angel to save Israel. (2 Maccabees 11, 6)
But hearing that the people of Jamnia were planning to treat their resident Jews in the same way, (2 Maccabees 12, 8)
he made a night attack on the Jamnites and fired the port with its fleet; the glow of the flames was seen as far off as Jerusalem, thirty miles away. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
Judas also attacked a certain fortified town, closed by ramparts and inhabited by a medley of races; its name was Caspin. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
Judas' cohort came into sight first. The enemy, seized with fright and panic-stricken by the manifestation of the All-seeing, began to flee, one running this way, one running that, often wounding one another in consequence and running on the points of one another's swords. (2 Maccabees 12, 22)
