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Moreover, I understand how the princes along the borders and the neighbors to my kingdom keep watching for opportunities and waiting to see what will happen. So I have appointed my son Antiochus to be king, whom I have often entrusted and commended to most of you when I hastened off to the upper provinces; and I have written to him what is written here. (2 Maccabees 9, 25)
I therefore urge and beseech you to remember the public and private services rendered to you and to maintain your present good will, each of you, toward me and my son. (2 Maccabees 9, 26)
So the murderer and blasphemer, having endured the more intense suffering, such as he had inflicted on others, came to the end of his life by a most pitiable fate, among the mountains in a strange land. (2 Maccabees 9, 28)
Such then was the end of Antiochus, who was called Epiphanes. (2 Maccabees 10, 9)
As a result he was accused before Eupator by the king's friends. He heard himself called a traitor at every turn, because he had abandoned Cyprus, which Philometor had entrusted to him, and had gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Unable to command the respect due his office, he took poison and ended his life. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
Besides this, the Idumeans, who had control of important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they received those who were banished from Jerusalem, and endeavored to keep up the war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
Now Timothy, who had been defeated by the Jews before, gathered a tremendous force of mercenaries and collected the cavalry from Asia in no small number. He came on, intending to take Judea by storm. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
When the battle became fierce, there appeared to the enemy from heaven five resplendent men on horses with golden bridles, and they were leading the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
Others who came up in the same way wheeled around against the defenders and set fire to the towers; they kindled fires and burned the blasphemers alive. Others broke open the gates and let in the rest of the force, and they occupied the city. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
gathered about eighty thousand men and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks, (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, besought the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel. (2 Maccabees 11, 6)
and persuaded them to settle everything on just terms, promising that he would persuade the king, constraining him to be their friend. (2 Maccabees 11, 14)
