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He went about the cities of Judah destroying the impious there. He turned away wrath from Israel (1 Maccabees 3, 8)
"Many of them have been imprisoned in Bozrah, in Bosor near Alema, in Chaspho, Maked, and Carnaim"--all of these are large, fortified cities-- (1 Maccabees 5, 26)
"and some have been imprisoned in other cities of Gilead. Tomorrow their enemies plan to attack the strongholds and to seize and destroy all these people in one day." (1 Maccabees 5, 27)
From there he moved on and took Chaspho, Maked, Bosor, and the other cities of Gilead. (1 Maccabees 5, 36)
Judas then turned toward Azotus in the land of the Philistines. He destroyed their altars and burned the statues of their gods; and after plundering their cities he returned to the land of Judah. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
and by planning and persistence had conquered the whole country, although it was very remote from their own. They had crushed the kings who had come against them from the far corners of the earth and had inflicted on them severe defeat, and the rest paid tribute to them every year. (1 Maccabees 8, 4)
with their friends, however, and those who relied on them, they maintained friendship. They had conquered kings both far and near, and all who heard of their fame were afraid of them. (1 Maccabees 8, 12)
He entered Syria with peaceful words, and the people in the cities opened their gates to welcome him, as King Alexander had ordered them to do, since Ptolemy was his father-in-law. (1 Maccabees 11, 2)
But when Ptolemy entered the cities, he stationed garrison troops in each one. (1 Maccabees 11, 3)
Plotting evil against Alexander, King Ptolemy took possession of the cities along the seacoast as far as Seleucia-by-the-Sea. (1 Maccabees 11, 8)
But three days later King Ptolemy himself died, and his men in the fortified cities were killed by the inhabitants of the strongholds. (1 Maccabees 11, 18)
Jonathan set out and traveled through West-of-Euphrates and its cities, and all the forces of Syria espoused his cause as allies. When he arrived at Ashkalon, the citizens welcomed him with pomp. (1 Maccabees 11, 60)
