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• So may yonder host, left at Israel’s mercy, unlearn its confidence in strength and in speed; (1 Maccabees 4, 31)

• No wonder if Judas and his brethren, with the whole assembly of Israel, made a decree that this feast should be kept year by year for eight days together, the feast-day of the altar’s dedication.✻ Came that season, from the twenty-fifth day of Casleu onwards, all was to be rejoicing and holiday. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)

• Judas put a garrison there, and would have it strong enough to command Bethsura; a bulwark Israel must have against attack from the frontiers of Edom. (1 Maccabees 4, 61)

• Nor might he overlook Beän’s tribe and the treachery they shewed, ever catching Israel at unawares by laying an ambush in his path. (1 Maccabees 5, 4)

• Back fell Joseph and Azarias to the frontiers of Judaea in great disorder, with a loss to Israel of two thousand men; such defeat they brought on our arms, (1 Maccabees 5, 60)

• Not of that race they sprang that should afford Israel deliverance. (1 Maccabees 5, 62)

• King Antiochus was still on his journey through the high countries, when he heard tell of a city in Persia called Elymais, renowned for its treasures of silver and gold; (1 Maccabees 6, 1)

• What news was this! The king was all bewilderment and consternation; he took to his bed, fallen into a decline for very sadness that his hopes had failed him. (1 Maccabees 6, 8)

• Then and there died king Antiochus, in the hundred and forty-ninth year of the Grecian empire. (1 Maccabees 6, 16)

• went off to gain the king’s audience. Wilt thou never bring redress, they asked, and do our brethren right? (1 Maccabees 6, 22)

• Angered by these tidings, the king sent for all his trusted friends, for his army captains and his commanders of horse; (1 Maccabees 6, 28)

• Meanwhile, Judas drew away from the citadel, and encamped at Bethzacharam, close to the king’s army. (1 Maccabees 6, 32)