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Stung by these taunts, twenty warriors of Machabaeus’ company made a bold attack on the wall as the fifth day was dawning, and, by the fierceness of their onslaught, made shift to climb it; (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
For two whole days they ransacked the fort, and at last came upon Timotheus✻ in his hiding-place; so they made an end of him, his brother Chaereas and Apollophanes perishing with him. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)
Farewell. Given on this twenty-fourth day of Dioscorus, in the hundred and forty-eighth year. (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
and we hereby grant safe conduct to all of you that would travel here, up to the thirtieth day of Xanthicus … (2 Maccabees 11, 30)
Farewell. Given on the fifteenth day of Xanthicus, in the hundred and forty-eighth year. (2 Maccabees 11, 33)
Farewell. Given on the twenty-fifth day of Xanthicus, in the hundred and forty-eighth year. (2 Maccabees 11, 38)
Stern was the encounter, but with God’s help they won the day; and the defeated remnant of the Arabs asked Judas for quarter, promising a grant of pasture-lands, with other advantages. (2 Maccabees 12, 11)
But Machabaeus to that King made appeal, who needed neither engine nor battering-ram, in Josue’s day, to bring Jericho down in ruins; a fierce attack he delivered upon the walls, (2 Maccabees 12, 15)
And all the while Judas pressed them hard, the scourge of ill-doers; thirty thousand of them that day he slaughtered. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)
Next day, with Judas at their head, they went back to recover the bodies of the slain, for burial among their own folk in their fathers’ graves; (2 Maccabees 12, 39)
and Judas, when the news came to him, bade the people entreat God night and day he would come to their rescue, as ever he was wont hitherto. (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
Entreat the Lord they did, and with one accord, for his mercy; wept they and fasted, and kept on their knees for three days together. Then Judas gave them the word to arm, (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
