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they wrote to him on tablets made of bronze, to renew the treaty of friendship they had with his brethren, Judas and Jonathan, before him;✻ (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
And at that, Simon must have his two elder sons present, Judas and John both, and made the command over to them. Still young we were, he said, I and my brothers and my father’s kin, when we began that war on Israel’s enemies which is being fought yet; under our banners once and again came victory, and the day was saved for Israel. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
John went in pursuit, for all his brother Judas had been wounded in the battle, and chased them as far as the walls of Cedron … which he had fortified.✻ (1 Maccabees 16, 9)
It was in Sabath, the eleventh month, of the hundred and seventy-seventh year, that Simon came down to Jericho, as ever he visited all the cities of Judaea in his great care for them; and his sons Mattathias and Judas went with him. (1 Maccabees 16, 14)
Written in the hundred and eighty-eighth year.The common folk of Jerusalem and Judaea,✻ their council of elders, and I, Judas, to Aristobulus, of the anointed priestly race, that was master of king Ptolemy, and to the Jews of Egypt, greeting and health. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
And now Judas in his turn has recovered all such records as were lost to us through the late wars, and they are here in our keeping; (2 Maccabees 2, 14)
Speak we of Judas Machabaeus and his brethren, and how the great temple was purified, and the altar hallowed anew;✻ (2 Maccabees 2, 20)
Meanwhile Judas Machabaeus, and nine others with him, went out into the desert, where they lived like wild beasts on the mountain-side; better lodge there with herbs for food, than be party to the general defilement. (2 Maccabees 5, 27)
Now turn we to Judas Machabaeus and his company. Secretly they made entry into the villages, whence they summoned both kinsman and friend of theirs; ay, and rallied many more, that were yet true to the Jewish faith, till they had mustered an army of six thousand men. (2 Maccabees 8, 1)
No sooner did Judas hear of Nicanor’s coming, than he gave warning of it to the Jews who bore him company. (2 Maccabees 8, 12)
Esdras✻ was bidden read aloud from the sacred writings, and the watchword was given, God’s Aid. And with that, out went Judas at the head of his army, and engaged the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
Such tidings of cruel murder done upon men of his own race, Judas could not hear unmoved; mustering his followers, and calling upon God, that judges aright, to speed him, (2 Maccabees 12, 5)
