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Judas then rallied his army and moved on to the town of Adullam where, as it was the seventh day of the week, they purified themselves according to custom and kept the Sabbath. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
Next day, they came to find Judas (since the necessity was by now urgent) to have the bodies of the fallen taken up and laid to rest among their relatives in their ancestral tombs. (2 Maccabees 12, 39)
and gave themselves to prayer, begging that the sin committed might be completely forgiven. Next, the valiant Judas urged the soldiers to keep themselves free from all sin, having seen with their own eyes the effects of the sin of those who had fallen; (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas and his men discovered that Antiochus Eupator was advancing in force against Judaea, (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
When Judas heard of this, he ordered the people day and night to call on the Lord as never before, to come to the help of those who were in peril of being deprived of the Law, their fatherland and the holy Temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
When they had all, with one voice, obeyed his instructions and had made their petitions to the merciful Lord, weeping, fasting and prostrating themselves for three days continuously, Judas spoke words of encouragement and told them to keep close to him. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
just as dawn was breaking. This was achieved, thanks to the protection which the Lord granted Judas. (2 Maccabees 13, 17)
The king, having had a taste of Jewish daring, now tried to capture their positions by trickery. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
Judas supplied the garrison with what they needed, (2 Maccabees 13, 20)
A second time, the king parleyed with the garrison of Beth-Zur; he offered and accepted pledges of friendship, retired, then attacked Judas and his men, but lost the battle. (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
Three years after this, Judas and his men learned that Demetrius son of Seleucus had landed at the port of Tripolis with a strong army and a fleet, (2 Maccabees 14, 1)
