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Bacchides then left Jerusalem and encamped at Beth-Zeth, and from there sent and arrested many of the men who had deserted him and a few of our people too; he had them killed and thrown down the great well. (1 Maccabees 7, 19)
Judas went right round the whole territory of Judaea to take vengeance on those who had deserted him and to prevent their free movement about the country. (1 Maccabees 7, 24)
About five hundred of Nicanor's men fell; the rest took refuge in the City of David. (1 Maccabees 7, 32)
Judas, meanwhile, camped at Adasa with three thousand men, and offered this prayer, (1 Maccabees 7, 40)
'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)
In the same way let us see you crush this army today, so that everyone else may know that this man has spoken blasphemously against your sanctuary: pass judgement on him as his wickedness deserves!' (1 Maccabees 7, 42)
and people came out of all the surrounding Judaean villages to encircle the fugitives, who then turned back on their own men. All fell by the sword, not one being left alive. (1 Maccabees 7, 46)
they had taken him alive and imposed on him and his successors, on agreed terms, the payment of an enormous tribute, the surrender of hostages, and the cession (1 Maccabees 8, 7)
of the Indian territory, with Media, Lydia, and some of their best provinces, which they took from him and gave to King Eumenes. (1 Maccabees 8, 8)
the latter had got wind of it and, sending a single general against them, had fought a campaign in which they inflicted heavy casualties, carried their women and children away into captivity, pillaged their goods, subdued their country, tore down their fortresses and reduced them to a slavery lasting to the present day; (1 Maccabees 8, 10)
In spite of all this, no single one of them had assumed a crown or put on the purple for his own aggrandisement. (1 Maccabees 8, 14)
They entrusted their government to one man for a year at a time, with absolute power over their whole empire, and this man was obeyed by all without envy or jealousy. (1 Maccabees 8, 16)
