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Judas then rallied his army and moved on to the town of Adullam where, as it was the seventh day of the week, they purified themselves according to custom and kept the Sabbath. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
Having thus committed the outcome to the Creator of the world, and having exhorted his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the laws, the Temple, the city, their country and their way of life, he encamped his army near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, supplied the enemy with secret information; the man was identified, arrested, and dealt with. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
Three years after this, Judas and his men learned that Demetrius son of Seleucus had landed at the port of Tripolis with a strong army and a fleet, (2 Maccabees 14, 1)
His prayer was worded thus: 'You, Master, sent your angel in the days of Hezekiah king of Judaea, and he destroyed no less than one hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sennacherib's army; (2 Maccabees 15, 22)
The calm words of the wise make themselves heard above the shouts of someone commanding an army of fools. (Ecclesiastes 9, 17)
LOVER: You are fair as Tirzah, my beloved, enchanting as Jerusalem, formidable as an army! (Song of Solomon 6, 4)
'Who is this arising like the dawn, fair as the moon, resplendent as the sun, formidable as an army?' (Song of Solomon 6, 10)
Or like a bird flying through the air -- leaving no proof of its passing; it whips the light air with the stroke of its pinions, tears it apart in its whirring rush, drives its way onward with sweeping wing, and afterwards no sign is seen of its passage. (Wisdom of Solomon 5, 11)
Even so, since these were human, you treated them leniently, sending hornets as forerunners of your army, to exterminate them little by little. (Wisdom of Solomon 12, 8)
My hand has found, as though a bird's nest, the riches of the peoples. Like someone collecting deserted eggs, I have collected the whole world while no one has fluttered a wing or opened a beak to squawk.' (Isaiah 10, 14)
