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A number of scoundrels, the pest of Israel, combined to denounce him, but the king paid no attention to them. (1 Maccabees 10, 61)
When Jonathan heard this, he gave orders for the siege to continue; he then selected a deputation from the elders of Israel and the priests, and took the deliberate risk (1 Maccabees 11, 23)
Jonathan, meanwhile, sent to ask King Demetrius to withdraw the garrisons from the Citadel in Jerusalem and from the other fortresses, since they were constantly fighting Israel. (1 Maccabees 11, 41)
All reached Judaea safe and sound, and there they lamented Jonathan and his companions, being very frightened indeed; all Israel was plunged into mourning. (1 Maccabees 12, 52)
That is why my brothers are all dead, for Israel's sake, and I am the only one left. (1 Maccabees 13, 4)
All Israel kept solemn mourning for him and long bewailed him. (1 Maccabees 13, 26)
The gentile yoke was thus lifted from Israel in the year 170, (1 Maccabees 13, 41)
The Jews made their entry on the twenty-third day of the second month in the year 171, with acclamations and carrying palms, to the sound of lyres, cymbals and harps, chanting hymns and canticles, since a great enemy had been crushed and thrown out of Israel. Simon made it a day of annual rejoicing. (1 Maccabees 13, 51)
He established peace in the land, and Israel knew great joy. (1 Maccabees 14, 11)
He stood firm, he and his brothers and his father's house: he fought off the enemies of Israel and secured its freedom.' So they recorded an inscription on bronze tablets and set it up on pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
At this, Simon summoned his two elder sons, Judas and John, and said to them, 'My brothers and I, and my father's House, have fought the enemies of Israel from our youth until today, and many a time we have been successful in rescuing Israel. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
the only provider, who alone are just, almighty and everlasting, the deliverer of Israel from every evil, who made our fathers your chosen ones and sanctified them, (2 Maccabees 1, 25)
