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he attacked the Jamnian populace by night, setting fire to the harbor and the fleet, so that the glow of the flames was visible as far as Jerusalem, thirty miles away. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
Then they set out from there and hastened on to Scythopolis, seventy-five miles from Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 12, 29)
Judas and his men thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Finally they arrived in Jerusalem, shortly before the feast of Weeks. (2 Maccabees 12, 31)
He then took up a collection among all his soldiers, amounting to two thousand silver drachmas, which he sent to Jerusalem to provide for an expiatory sacrifice. In doing this he acted in a very excellent and noble way, inasmuch as he had the resurrection of the dead in view; (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
Nicanor stayed on in Jerusalem, where he did nothing out of place. He got rid of the throngs of ordinary people who gathered around him; (2 Maccabees 14, 23)
A certain Razis, one of the elders of Jerusalem, was denounced to Nicanor as a patriot. A man highly regarded, he was called a father of the Jews because of his love for them. (2 Maccabees 14, 37)
Then Judas, who was ever in body and soul the chief defender of his fellow citizens, and had maintained from youth his affection for his countrymen, ordered Nicanor's head and whole right arm to be cut off and taken to Jerusalem. (2 Maccabees 15, 30)
The words of David's son, Qoheleth, king in Jerusalem: (Ecclesiastes 1, 1)
I, Qoheleth, was king over Israel in Jerusalem, (Ecclesiastes 1, 12)
Though I said to myself, "Behold, I have become great and stored up wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge"; (Ecclesiastes 1, 16)
I acquired male and female slaves, and slaves were born in my house. I also had growing herds of cattle and flocks of sheep, more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem. (Ecclesiastes 2, 7)
I became great, and I stored up more than all others before me in Jerusalem; my wisdom, too, stayed with me. (Ecclesiastes 2, 9)
