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When Maccabaeus was told what had happened, he summoned the people's commanders and accused the offenders of having sold their brothers for money by releasing their enemies to fight them. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
Here is the text of the letter Lysias wrote to the Jews: 'Lysias to the Jewish people, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
Accordingly, since we intend this people to be free from vexation like any other, our ruling is that the Temple be restored to them and that they conduct their affairs according to the customs of their ancestors. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
The Romans also sent the Jews a letter, which read as follows: 'Quintus Memmius, Titus Manilius, Manius Sergius, legates of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
The people of Joppa committed a particularly wicked crime: they invited the Jews living among them to go aboard some boats they had lying ready, taking their wives and children. There was no hint of any intention to harm them; (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
there had been a public vote by the citizens, and the Jews accepted, as well they might, being peaceable people with no reason to suspect anything. But once out in the open sea they were all sent to the bottom, a company of at least two hundred. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
But hearing that the people of Jamnia were planning to treat their resident Jews in the same way, (2 Maccabees 12, 8)
When at long last he convinced them that he would honour his promise and return these people safe and sound, they let him go for the sake of saving their brothers. (2 Maccabees 12, 25)
But the Jews, having invoked the Sovereign who by his power shatters enemies' defences, gained control of the town and cut down nearly twenty-five thousand of the people inside. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
seventy-five miles from Jerusalem. But as the Jews who had settled there assured Judas that the people of Scythopolis had always treated them well and had been particularly kind to them when times were at their worst, (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
When Judas heard of this, he ordered the people day and night to call on the Lord as never before, to come to the help of those who were in peril of being deprived of the Law, their fatherland and the holy Temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
and not to allow the people, just when they were beginning to breathe again, to fall into the power of ill-famed foreigners. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
