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The foreigners looked up and, seeing the Jews advancing against them, (1 Maccabees 4, 12)
They advanced into Idumaea and made their base at Beth-Zur, where Judas met them with ten thousand men. (1 Maccabees 4, 29)
Simon advanced into Galilee, engaged the gentiles in several battles and swept all before him; (1 Maccabees 5, 21)
Dividing them into three commands, he advanced on the enemy's rear, with trumpets sounding and prayers shouted aloud. (1 Maccabees 5, 33)
The troops of Timotheus, recognising that this was Maccabaeus, fled before his advance; Maccabaeus dealt them a crushing defeat; about eight thousand of their men fell that day. (1 Maccabees 5, 34)
with Arab mercenaries as auxiliaries; they are encamped on the far side of the stream-bed, and ready to launch an attack on you.' Judas then advanced to engage them, (1 Maccabees 5, 39)
and was approaching the watercourse with his troops when Timotheus told the commanders of his army, 'If he crosses first we shall not be able to resist him, because he will have a great advantage over us; (1 Maccabees 5, 40)
but if he is afraid and camps on the other side of the stream, we shall cross over to him and the advantage will then be ours.' (1 Maccabees 5, 41)
and that Lysias in particular had advanced in massive strength, only to be forced to turn and flee before the Jews; that the latter were now stronger than ever, thanks to the arms, supplies and abundant spoils acquired from the armies they had cut to pieces, (1 Maccabees 6, 6)
They advanced through Idumaea and besieged Beth-Zur, pressing the attack for days on end; they also constructed siege-engines, but the defenders made a sortie and set these on fire, putting up a brave resistance. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
One part of the royal army was deployed on the upper slopes of the mountain and the other in the valley below; they advanced in solid, well-disciplined formation. (1 Maccabees 6, 40)
Judas and his army advanced to give battle, and six hundred of the king's army were killed. (1 Maccabees 6, 42)
