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The king and his commanders approved this argument, and he offered the Jews peace terms, which they accepted. (1 Maccabees 6, 60)
The king and the generals ratified the treaty by oath, and the besieged accordingly left the fortress. (1 Maccabees 6, 61)
The king then entered Mount Zion, but on seeing how impregnable the place was, he broke the oath he had sworn and gave orders for the encircling wall to be demolished. (1 Maccabees 6, 62)
approached the king and denounced our people to him. 'Judas and his brothers', they said, 'have killed all your friends, and he has driven us out of our country. (1 Maccabees 7, 6)
Send someone now whom you can trust; let him go and see the wholesale ruin Judas has brought on us and on the king's dominions, and let him punish the wretches and all who assist them.' (1 Maccabees 7, 7)
The king chose Bacchides, one of the Friends of the King, governor of Transeuphrates, an important personage in the kingdom and loyal to the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 8)
He then put Alcimus in charge of the province, leaving an army with him to support him; Bacchides himself returned to the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 20)
When Alcimus saw how strong Judas and his supporters had grown and realised that he was powerless to resist them, he went back to the king, to whom he made malicious accusations against them. (1 Maccabees 7, 25)
The king sent Nicanor, one of his generals ranking as Illustrious and a bitter enemy of Israel, with orders to exterminate the people. (1 Maccabees 7, 26)
After these events Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of the priests came out of the Holy Place with some elders, to give him a friendly welcome and show him the burnt offering being presented for the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 33)
'When the king's envoys blasphemed, your angel went out and struck down one hundred and eighty-five thousand of his men. (1 Maccabees 7, 41)
Philip, Perseus king of the Kittim, and others who had dared to make war on them, had been defeated and reduced to subjection, (1 Maccabees 8, 5)
