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• I, my sons and my brothers will still follow the covenant of our ancestors. (1 Maccabees 2, 20)

• This is the time, my children, for you to have a burning zeal for the Law and to give your lives for the covenant of our ancestors. (1 Maccabees 2, 50)

• Remember the deeds performed by our ancestors, each in his generation, and you will win great honour and everlasting renown. (1 Maccabees 2, 51)

• Then he blessed them and was joined to his ancestors. (1 Maccabees 2, 69)

• Remember how our ancestors were delivered at the Red Sea when Pharaoh was pursuing them in force. (1 Maccabees 4, 9)

• And now let us call on Heaven: if he cares for us, he will remember his covenant with our ancestors and will destroy this army confronting us today; (1 Maccabees 4, 10)

• It so happened that, as he was entering the royal residence of his ancestors, the army captured Antiochus and Lysias, and intended to bring them to him. (1 Maccabees 7, 2)

• 'Since I have returned to my kingdom, have ascended the throne of my ancestors, have gained control by crushing Demetrius, and so recovered our country- (1 Maccabees 10, 52)

• King Ptolemy replied as follows: 'Happy the day when you returned to the land of your ancestors and ascended their royal throne! (1 Maccabees 10, 55)

• In the year 165, Demetrius son of Demetrius came from Crete to the land of his ancestors. (1 Maccabees 10, 67)

• Ask and learn who I am and who the others supporting us are. You will hear that you cannot stand up to us, since your ancestors were twice routed on their own ground, (1 Maccabees 10, 72)

• When King Demetrius saw that the country was at peace under his rule and that no resistance was offered him, he dismissed his forces, and sent all the men home, except for the foreign troops that he had recruited in the foreign island, thus incurring the enmity of the veterans who had served his ancestors. (1 Maccabees 11, 38)