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For he and his brothers and the house of his father have stood firm; they have fought and repulsed Israel's enemies and established its freedom." (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
John went up from Gazara and reported to Simon his father what Cendebeus had done. (1 Maccabees 16, 1)
And Simon called in his two older sons Judas and John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
But some one ran ahead and reported to John at Gazara that his father and brothers had perished, and that "he has sent men to kill you also." (1 Maccabees 16, 21)
behold, they are written in the chronicles of his high priesthood, from the time that he became high priest after his father. (1 Maccabees 16, 24)
May God do good to you, and may he remember his covenant with Abraham and Isaac and Jacob, his faithful servants. (2 Maccabees 1, 2)
He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans; and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law. (2 Maccabees 4, 11)
For this reason not only Jews, but many also of other nations, were grieved and displeased at the unjust murder of the man. (2 Maccabees 4, 35)
For in the case of the other nations the Lord waits patiently to punish them until they have reached the full measure of their sins; but he does not deal in this way with us, (2 Maccabees 6, 14)
And Ptolemy promptly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king's chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
but I observed that my father, on the occasions when he made expeditions into the upper country, appointed his successor, (2 Maccabees 9, 23)
And when they had done this, they fell prostrate and besought the Lord that they might never again fall into such misfortunes, but that, if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
