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Grant us leave, said he, to make our way through your country to ours, nor any harm shall befall you; we ask but the right of passage, and on foot. But open the gates they would not; (1 Maccabees 5, 48)
Never a male creature there but was put to the sword; the city was plundered and pulled down; and so he passed on through the streets of it, all paved with dead men. (1 Maccabees 5, 51)
and nothing would serve but they must make a great name for themselves too, by offering battle to the Gentiles round about. (1 Maccabees 5, 57)
because they would not listen to Judas and his brethren, but must be great warriors like the rest. (1 Maccabees 5, 61)
But as for Judas and his company,✻ they were held high in honour, both among Israelite folk, and wherever the renown of them was heard; (1 Maccabees 5, 63)
But still he and his brethren would be on the march, reducing the men of Edom in the south country; on Hebron and its daughter townships the blow fell, neither wall nor tower of it but was burned to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 65)
Thither he marched, intent on seizing the city and plundering it; but seize it he might not, because the townsfolk had news of his purpose, (1 Maccabees 6, 3)
But some of the defenders slipped out; and these, with traitors of Israelite stock to support them, (1 Maccabees 6, 21)
Not us only, but all the country about them, their violence threatens; (1 Maccabees 6, 25)
Through Edom they marched, and invested Bethsura; long they held it besieged, and built engines to attack it, but these, by a brave sally, the defenders burned to ashes. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
But Judas and his men closed with them, and gave battle; and of the king’s soldiers, there were six hundred that fell. (1 Maccabees 6, 42)
But now, finding the royal forces so strong, and so determined in their attack, the Jews withdrew from the encounter. (1 Maccabees 6, 47)
