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It was the thirteenth of Adar when the two armies met; sure enough, Nicanor’s army was overwhelmed, and himself the first to fall in the encounter; (1 Maccabees 7, 43)
And for a little while the land of Juda had peace. (1 Maccabees 7, 50)
While this was afoot, news came to Demetrius that Nicanor and his men had perished in the encounter. But he would still have his way; Bacchides and Alcimus should be sent back to Judaea, and the northern command✻ of his army with them. (1 Maccabees 9, 1)
By this, the opposing army had moved forward out of its lines, and stood fronting them; here were the two bodies of horse, the slingers and archers going on before the rest, and the choice troops that would bear the shock of the encounter; (1 Maccabees 9, 11)
On the right, where he saw Bacchides’ army was strongest, Judas made the attack, and all the most valiant of his men with him; (1 Maccabees 9, 14)
and it was there that Bacchides, well informed of their movements, crossed Jordan at the head of his army and came upon them, one sabbath day. (1 Maccabees 9, 34)
whereupon he raised a great army for marching on Judaea, but first sent word privately to his partisans there, bidding them seize Jonathan and his company for themselves. Word went abroad, and the plan miscarried; (1 Maccabees 9, 60)
and restoring all the prisoners he had ever taken in the land of Juda. So he took himself back to his own country, and never came that way again. (1 Maccabees 9, 72)
So he empowered Jonathan to muster an army, and to make weapons of war, as the ally of Syria; the hostages, too, in the citadel were to be given back to him. (1 Maccabees 10, 6)
So, when the seventh month came round, in the hundred and sixtieth year, Jonathan clad himself with the sacred vesture at the feast of Tent-dwelling; an army he levied besides, and made weapons of war in great abundance. (1 Maccabees 10, 21)
and half your fruit-crop. From this day forward, now and for ever, I resign all this; from Juda and from the three cantons of Samaria and Galilee✻ lately added to it, there shall be no toll taken. (1 Maccabees 10, 30)
All persons of Jewish blood in all my realm that were taken away as prisoners from Juda shall now be set free gratuitously, and no distraint made on their revenues or cattle. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)
