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It was a company of scribes that went out to meet Alcimus and Bacchides, asking for honourable terms; (1 Maccabees 7, 12)
Here is a priest of Aaron’s line, said they, in yonder company, fear we no treachery from him. (1 Maccabees 7, 14)
Everywhere Judas and his company had their way, and the sight of it warned Alcimus he was no match for them; so he, too, went back to the king, loud in his complaints. (1 Maccabees 7, 25)
but of this Jonathan had warning, and took refuge, with his brother Simon and all his company, in the desert of Thecue. It was there, by Asphar pool, they halted; (1 Maccabees 9, 33)
What did Jonathan then? With all his company, he leapt into Jordan. So now, to reach them, the enemy must swim for it across the stream.✻ (1 Maccabees 9, 48)
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)
As for Simon and his company, they made a sally out of the town, and set fire to the engines; (1 Maccabees 9, 67)
This message notwithstanding, Jonathan would have the siege go forward; certain elders of Israel, and certain of the priests, he chose out to bear him company, and so put his own life in peril, (1 Maccabees 11, 23)
It were better to disband them, and choose out a few for thy own retinue. That done, bear me company to Ptolemais; city and strongholds and troops and officers I will hand over into thy charge and so get me gone home; it was on that errand I came. (1 Maccabees 12, 45)
and kept but three thousand under arms; of these, he left two thousand in Galilee, and took but a thousand in his company. (1 Maccabees 12, 47)
Thereupon, letting themselves in by their secret door, they killed the general and his company with throwing of stones, cut them limb from limb, and threw them down headless to the populace without. (2 Maccabees 1, 16)
The news travelled, till the Persian king himself was told how water appeared where exiled priests had hidden the fire, how, with this water, Nehemias and his company had bathed the sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
