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In the same way, if war comes first to the Jewish nation, the Romans will support them energetically as occasion may offer, (1 Maccabees 8, 27)
they then moved on, making their way to Beer-Zaith with twenty thousand foot and two thousand horse. (1 Maccabees 9, 4)
With battle now inevitable, Judas realised that his army had melted away; he was aghast, for he had no time to rally them. (1 Maccabees 9, 7)
Judas retorted, 'That I should do such a thing as run away from them! If our time has come, at least let us die like men for our countrymen, and leave nothing to tarnish our reputation.' (1 Maccabees 9, 10)
Having in this way avenged in full the blood of their brother, they returned to the marshes of the Jordan. (1 Maccabees 9, 42)
Jonathan made his way in state to Ptolemais and met the two kings; he gave them and their friends silver and gold, and many gifts, and made a favourable impression on them. (1 Maccabees 10, 60)
Hearing this, Apollonius marshalled three thousand cavalry and a large army and made his way to Azotus as though intending to march through, while in fact pressing on into the plain, since he had a great number of cavalry on which he was relying. (1 Maccabees 10, 77)
But some renegades who hated their nation made their way to the king and told him that Jonathan was besieging the Citadel. (1 Maccabees 11, 21)
The people of Gaza then pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them; but he took the sons of their chief men as hostages and sent them away to Jerusalem. He then travelled through the country as far as Damascus. (1 Maccabees 11, 62)
The envoys made their way to Rome, entered the Senate and said, 'Jonathan the high priest and the Jewish nation have sent us to renew your treaty of friendship and alliance with them as before.' (1 Maccabees 12, 3)
The surrounding nations were all now looking for ways of destroying them: 'They have no leader,' they said, 'no ally; we have only to attack them now, and we shall blot out their very memory from all peoples.' (1 Maccabees 12, 53)
The men in the Citadel kept sending messengers to Trypho, urging him to get through to them by way of the desert and send them supplies. (1 Maccabees 13, 21)
