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Spoil of them was plundered where they lay; as for Nicanor, the Jews cut off the head from his body, and that right hand he lifted up so defiantly, and took them away, to be hung up in full sight of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 7, 47)
and they wrote back to the Jews on tablets of bronze, that should be kept in Jerusalem to serve them for a memorial of treaty and alliance made, to this effect: (1 Maccabees 8, 22)
Then, in the first month of the hundred and fifty-second year, they began an attack on Jerusalem, (1 Maccabees 9, 3)
Nay, said Judas, that may I never do; what, shew them our backs? If our time is come, die we manfully in our brethren’s cause, nor suffer any foul blot to fall on our name! (1 Maccabees 9, 10)
A thousand men of his following Bacchides lost that day, and was fain to return to Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 9, 49)
ay, and the great men of all the country round must yield up their children as hostages, to be held in Jerusalem citadel for safe keeping. (1 Maccabees 9, 53)
When Jonathan came to Jerusalem, and read this letter aloud, not to the townsfolk only, but to the citadel garrison, (1 Maccabees 10, 7)
and he himself took up his quarters in Jerusalem, where he set about building up the city and repairing it. (1 Maccabees 10, 10)
For Jerusalem, it shall be a place set apart, a free city with its own confines, mistress of its own tithe and tribute; (1 Maccabees 10, 31)
Ptolemais, with all the country that lies about it, I hereby convey as a free gift to the temple precincts at Jerusalem, to defray the temple expenses.✻ (1 Maccabees 10, 39)
as also for building up and making strong the walls of Jerusalem, and restoring the fortresses of Judaea. (1 Maccabees 10, 45)
So Jonathan made his way back to Jerusalem undisturbed, and well content. (1 Maccabees 10, 66)
