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So he crossed, challenging them, and all the army at his heels, and sure enough the Gentile host was routed at their coming; threw arms away, and sought refuge in the temple at Carnaim.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 43)
Upon taking the city, he burned its temple to the ground with all that were sheltered in it; so was Carnaim vanquished, and could make head against Juda no more. (1 Maccabees 5, 44)
here was a temple of great magnificence, that had golden armour in it, breastplate and shield left there by Philip’s son, Alexander of Macedon, the first overlord of Greece. (1 Maccabees 6, 2)
In his anger, he swore to them nothing would serve but he should have Judas and Judas’ army at his mercy; if not, he would burn the temple down, as soon as ever he returned in safety. So, in high disdain, he left them; (1 Maccabees 7, 35)
and the priests must take themselves back within the walls, where they stood before altar and temple, praying very mournfully. (1 Maccabees 7, 36)
Out came Jewish folk from all the villages round about, to head them off,✻ till at last they turned at bay and fell at the sword’s point all of them, never a man left. (1 Maccabees 7, 46)
Well speed they at all times, the Roman and the Jewish peoples, by sea and land alike; far removed from either be alarm of war, assault of the enemy! (1 Maccabees 8, 23)
such aid the Jewish people shall give as the occasion demands, ungrudgingly. (1 Maccabees 8, 25)
Upon these terms the Romans and the Jewish people are agreed; (1 Maccabees 8, 29)
As for the wrong done by king Demetrius, we have sent him warning, What meanest thou, to burden with so heavy a yoke the Jewish people, our friends and allies? (1 Maccabees 8, 31)
Then, in the second month of the hundred and fifty-third year, came an order from Alcimus, the dividing wall of the temple’s inner court should be dismantled. The Prophets’ Building✻ he had already cleared away, and begun the dismantling, (1 Maccabees 9, 54)
Bacchides had news of this; mustering his whole force, and sending word to his Jewish supporters, (1 Maccabees 9, 63)
