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A plain account the high priest gave him; some were moneys deposited on trust, for the maintenance of widows and orphans; (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
The feud grew worse, till at last there were murders done, and Simon’s faction answerable for it. (2 Maccabees 4, 3)
For all exaction of tribute this fellow was answerable; and so it fell out that both of them were summoned to court, (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
So now Menelaus, that was at the root of all the mischief, must go scot free, and his unhappy accusers, that might have cleared themselves easily enough before a court of bloodthirsty Scythians,✻ with their lives must pay for it. (2 Maccabees 4, 47)
Even the Tyrians thought shame of it, and in princely fashion gave them burial. (2 Maccabees 4, 49)
and there, marked down for death by king Aretas of the Arabians, fled from city to city. An outlaw, hated and shunned by his kind, of a whole land, of a whole race, the common foe, he was driven out into Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
The temple at Jerusalem must be profaned, and dedicated now to Jupiter Olympius; as for the temple on Garizim, the Samaritans were to call it, as well they might,✻ after Jupiter the god of strangers. (2 Maccabees 6, 2)
but he thought rather of the reverence that was due to his great age, of his venerable grey hairs, of a life blamelessly lived from childhood onwards. True to the precepts of God’s holy law, he answered that they would do better to send him to his grave and have done with it. (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
And he answered in good round Hebrew,✻ eat he would not; whereupon he, in his turn, suffered like the first. (2 Maccabees 7, 8)
how they fought the Galatians at Babylon, with Macedonian allies whose heart failed them at the encounter, and six thousand Jews, alone but for heaven’s aid, made havoc of a hundred and twenty thousand men, much to the common advantage.✻ (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
The sabbath day over, they gave a share of the spoils to crippled folk, orphans and widows; they and theirs should have the rest. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
Other invaders they slew, twenty thousand of them and more, under Bacchides and Timotheus; and when they seized their high fortresses, and had spoil to divide in plenty, once more cripples and orphans and widows, and the aged folk too, must have a share to match their own. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
