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And immediately after Alexander's death, they made themselves kings and their sons after them, filling the earth with evil for many years. (1 Maccabees 1, 9)
After two years, the king sent to the cities of Judah the chief tax collector and he came to Jerusalem with a strong army. (1 Maccabees 1, 29)
Because of his death, Bacchides returned to the king and the land had peace for two years. (1 Maccabees 9, 57)
Moreover, I give all that should have been paid to me by the administrators in previous years. (1 Maccabees 10, 41)
In the year one hundred and seventy-nine, when Demetrius was king, we Jews wrote to you during the most critical moment of trials that we had to endure during those years. And we said to you: "Jason and his associates have betrayed the cause of the Holy Land and of the Kingdom. (2 Maccabees 1, 7)
Many years had passed, when in God's own time Nehemiah, who was commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
When the quinquennial games held every five years were going on in Tyre before the king, (2 Maccabees 4, 18)
After three years, Jason sent Menelaus, brother of the Simon mentioned above, to bring the money to the king and initiate steps to negotiate urgent matters with him. (2 Maccabees 4, 23)
When Lysimachus saw the people rising up in rebellion and becoming enraged, he armed about three thousand men and began a violent repression, designating as leader a certain Auranus, a man advanced in years but of very little intelligence. (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
But he preferred to make a noble decision worthy of his age, of his noble years, of his shining white hair, and of the irreproachable life he had led from childhood. Above all, showing respect for the holy laws established by God, he answered that he would rather be sent to the place of the dead. And he added, (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
"It would be unworthy to pretend at our age, and to lead many young people to suppose that I, at ninety years, have gone over to the pagan customs. (2 Maccabees 6, 24)
She bent over him and fooled the cruel tyrant by saying in her ancestral language: "My son, have pity on me. For nine months, I carried you in my womb and suckled you for three years; I raised you up and educated you until this day. (2 Maccabees 7, 27)
