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So he assembled all the fighting men and hurried on with completing the walls of Jerusalem, fortifying the whole perimeter. (1 Maccabees 13, 10)
Simon came to terms with them and stopped the fighting; but he expelled them from the city, purified the houses which contained idols, and then made his entry with songs of praise. (1 Maccabees 13, 47)
'When there was almost incessant fighting in the country Simon, son of Mattathias, a priest of the line of Joarib, and his brothers courted danger and withstood their nation's enemies to safeguard the integrity of their sanctuary and of the Law, and so brought their nation great glory; (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
Simon next came forward to fight for his nation: spending much of his personal wealth on arming his nation's fighting men and on providing their pay; (1 Maccabees 14, 32)
Antiochus pitched camp outside Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men and eight thousand cavalry. (1 Maccabees 15, 13)
He then selected twenty thousand of the country's fighting men and cavalry, and these marched against Cendebaeus, spending the night at Modein. (1 Maccabees 16, 4)
Meanwhile, since Esdrias and his men had been fighting for a long time and were exhausted, Judas called on the Lord to show himself their ally and leader in battle. (2 Maccabees 12, 36)
Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
Fighting with their hands and praying to God in their hearts, they cut down at least thirty-five thousand men and were greatly cheered by this manifestation of God. (2 Maccabees 15, 27)
It will be like a dream, like a vision at night: the horde of all the nations at war with Ariel, all those fighting, besieging and troubling it. (Isaiah 29, 7)
"Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: I shall bring back the weapons of war which you are now carrying, and with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldaeans now besieging you; from outside the walls, I shall stack them in the centre of this city. (Jeremiah 21, 4)
about those now fighting the Chaldaeans, only to fill the city with corpses, those whom I have slaughtered in my furious anger, those whose wickedness has made me hide my face from this city: (Jeremiah 33, 5)
