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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)
Here was great peril, they should be deprived at one blow of law, of country, and of sanctuary; would he allow blaspheming Gentiles to lord it again over his people, that had but now won a little breathing-space? (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
the king had taste enough of Jewish valour, and set about to reduce the strongholds by policy. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
There was one Rhodocus in the Jewish army that betrayed secrets to the enemy, but, upon enquiry made, he was apprehended and put under arrest; (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
until at last Lysias must go up to an open stage, and give his reasons; whereby he calmed the indignation of the people, and so returned to Antioch. Such was the king’s march upon Judaea, and such his homecoming. (2 Maccabees 13, 26)
As for the Jews, when they heard Nicanor was on the march, with all this rabble of alien folk, they cast earth on their heads and betook themselves to prayer. Was it not God’s appointment, his people he should evermore preserve? Was he not wont to protect them with signal marks of his favour? (2 Maccabees 14, 15)
It was this Nicanor that received information against one of the elders at Jerusalem, named Razias, a true patriot and a man of good repute; for the love he bore it, men called him the father of the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
And what saw he? Onias, that had once been high priest, appeared to him; an excellent good man this, modest of mien, courteous, well-spoken, and from his boyhood schooled in all the virtues. With hands outstretched, he stood there praying for the Jewish folk. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
who this might be, Onias told him forthwith: Here is one that loves our brethren, the people of Israel, well; one that for Israel and for every stone of the holy city prays much; God’s prophet Jeremias. (2 Maccabees 15, 14)
This holy sword take thou, he said, God’s gift; this wielding, all the enemies of my people Israel thou shalt lay low. (2 Maccabees 15, 16)
to the confusion of yonder blasphemers that levy war on thy holy people! And so he brought his prayer to an end. (2 Maccabees 15, 24)
Such was the history of Nicanor; and since that time the city has been in Jewish possession. Here, then, I will make an end of writing; (2 Maccabees 15, 38)
