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When he reached Azotus, here was Dagon’s temple burnt, here was the town itself and all its neighbourhood in ruins; the dead lay unburied, where they fell in battle, or in heaps by the road-side. All this they shewed him, (1 Maccabees 11, 4)
Tryphon, meanwhile, got possession of the elephants, and Antioch fell into his hands. (1 Maccabees 11, 56)
In that day’s fighting, three thousand of the Gentiles fell; and so Jonathan made his way back to Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 11, 74)
What did Jonathan? He fell into the trap, sent his men back to Juda, (1 Maccabees 12, 46)
To prayer fell the priests all around, while sacrifice was done, Jonathan to lead them,✻ and the rest answering; (2 Maccabees 1, 23)
to prayer fell Nehemias, and this was the manner of his praying: Lord God, that all things madest, the terrible, the strong, the just, the merciful, King gracious as none else; (2 Maccabees 1, 24)
Two other warriors they saw, how strong of limb, how dazzling of mien, how bravely clad! These stood about Heliodorus and fell to scourging him, this side and that, blow after blow, without respite. (2 Maccabees 3, 26)
For all exaction of tribute this fellow was answerable; and so it fell out that both of them were summoned to court, (2 Maccabees 4, 28)
Anon he fell into a rage, stripped Andronicus of his purple, and would have him led away all through the streets, till he reached the very spot where he had lifted his impious hand against Onias. There the sacrilegious wretch perished, by the divine vengeance worthily requited. (2 Maccabees 4, 38)
And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
As for Jason, he fell upon his own fellow-countrymen, and that without mercy. His own flesh and blood to vanquish, what was this but shameful defeat? Ay, but to him friend was foe, were there spoil for the winning! (2 Maccabees 5, 6)
Fell young and old alike; children with their mothers must die, nor maidenhood was spared, nor helpless infancy. (2 Maccabees 5, 13)
