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Two years passed, and then the king sent his chief collector of revenue to visit the cities of Juda. To Jerusalem he came, with a great rabble at his heels, (1 Maccabees 1, 30)
And as for David’s Keep, they enclosed it with high, strong walls, and strong towers besides, to serve them for a fortress; (1 Maccabees 1, 35)
And now came a letter from king Antiochus to all the subjects of his realm, bidding them leave ancestral custom of this race or that, and become one nation instead. (1 Maccabees 1, 43)
Both in Jerusalem and in all the cities of Juda the king’s envoys published this edict; men must live by the law of the heathen round about, (1 Maccabees 1, 46)
Through the whole of his dominions the king’s writ ran, and commissioners were appointed besides to enforce it; (1 Maccabees 1, 53)
It was on the fifteenth of Casleu, in the hundred and forty-fifth year, that king Antiochus set up an idol to desecrate God’s altar;✻ shrines there were in every township of Juda, (1 Maccabees 1, 57)
if any were found that kept the sacred record, or obeyed the Lord’s will, his life was forfeit to the king’s edict. (1 Maccabees 1, 60)
Death it was for woman to have her child circumcised in defiance of the king; (1 Maccabees 1, 63)
And now the pursuivants of king Antiochus came to Modin; take refuge there who might, he must do sacrifice none the less, and burn incense, and leave the following of God’s law. (1 Maccabees 2, 15)
Wilt thou not be the first to come forward and do the king’s bidding, with the whole world, and the men of Juda everywhere, and what is left of Jerusalem? To be the king’s friend, thou and thy sons with thee, gold and silver and much else for thy reward! (1 Maccabees 2, 18)
Loud rang the answer of Mattathias: What though king Antiochus have the whole world for his vassals? Obey the edict who will, forsaking the custom his fathers lived by, (1 Maccabees 2, 19)
To deaf ears king Antiochus proclaims the sacrifice; we swerve not from the law’s path, right or left. (1 Maccabees 2, 22)
