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So the king called the Jews to his aid, and they all rallied about him and then spread out through the city; and they killed on that day as many as a hundred thousand men. (1 Maccabees 11, 47)
They set fire to the city and seized much spoil on that day, and they saved the king. (1 Maccabees 11, 48)
When the men of the city saw that the Jews had gained control of the city as they pleased, their courage failed and they cried out to the king with this entreaty, (1 Maccabees 11, 49)
"Grant us peace, and make the Jews stop fighting against us and our city." (1 Maccabees 11, 50)
Then Jonathan set forth and traveled beyond the river and among the cities, and all the army of Syria gathered to him as allies. When he came to Askalon, the people of the city met him and paid him honor. (1 Maccabees 11, 60)
Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace, and he did so. He removed them from there, took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it. (1 Maccabees 11, 66)
to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
So they gathered together to build up the city; part of the wall on the valley to the east had fallen, and he repaired the section called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
he encouraged them, saying to them, "You yourselves know what great things I and my brothers and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know also the wars and the difficulties which we have seen. (1 Maccabees 13, 3)
But I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, for all the nations have gathered together out of hatred to destroy us." (1 Maccabees 13, 6)
And Simon sent and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him in Modein, the city of his fathers. (1 Maccabees 13, 25)
In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, brought it up to the city, and battered and captured one tower. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
