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Judas, with his brothers and the whole assembly of Israel, made it a law that the days of the dedication of the altar should be celebrated yearly at the proper season, for eight days beginning on the twenty-fifth of the month of Chislev, with rejoicing and gladness. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
King Antiochus then died, in the year 149. (1 Maccabees 6, 16)
They assembled and laid siege to the Citadel in the year 150, building batteries and siege-engines. (1 Maccabees 6, 20)
He granted peace terms to the people of Beth-Zur, who evacuated the town; it lacked store of provisions to withstand a siege, since the land was enjoying a sabbatical year. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
But they had no food in their stores since it was the seventh year, and because those who had taken refuge in Judaea from the gentiles had eaten up the last of their reserves. (1 Maccabees 6, 53)
In the year 151, Demetrius son of Seleucus left Rome and arrived with a few men at a town on the coast, where he inaugurated his reign. (1 Maccabees 7, 1)
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)
In the first month of the year 152, they encamped outside Jerusalem; (1 Maccabees 9, 3)
In the year 153, in the second month, Alcimus ordered the demolition of the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary, destroying the work of the prophets. Alcimus had just begun the demolition (1 Maccabees 9, 54)
On the death of Alcimus, Bacchides went back to the king, and Judaea was left in peace for two years. (1 Maccabees 9, 57)
In the year 160, Alexander, son of Antiochus Epiphanes, raised an army and occupied Ptolemais. He was well received, and there inaugurated his reign. (1 Maccabees 10, 1)
Jonathan put on the sacred vestments in the seventh month of the year 160, on the feast of Shelters; he then set about raising troops and manufacturing arms in quantity. (1 Maccabees 10, 21)
