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So those who had defended the cause of the city, the people and the sacred vessels were executed at once. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
And for nearly forty days, there appeared throughout the city, galloping through the air, horsemen dressed in gold, (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
As a false rumor spread that Antiochus had died, Jason gathered together about ten thousand men and launched a surprise attack on the city. The troops upon the walls defended the city, but once these were taken, the whole city fell into the hands of Jason, while Menelaus took refuge in the Citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
Finally, he had a very unfortunate end. Accused before Aretas, the king of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all, scorned as a renegade from the law and hated as the executioner of his country and fellow citizens, he was banished to Egypt. (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
But in acting in such an insolent manner, Antiochus did not realize that the Lord had let him profane the Temple in order to punish the inhabitants of the city, because their sins had offended him. (2 Maccabees 5, 17)
For, had the city not been sinful, Antiochus would have been flogged the moment he entered, as Heliodorus who was sent by Seleucus to rob the treasury had been. And he would have also repented of his audacity. (2 Maccabees 5, 18)
Two women were charged of having performed the rite of circumcision on their sons. They publicly paraded the women throughout the city with their babies hung at their breasts. Then they hurled them down from the city wall. (2 Maccabees 6, 10)
to have compassion on the city - destroyed and on the point of being leveled - to listen to the cry of the blood reaching out to him; (2 Maccabees 8, 3)
When he entered a city called Persepolis, and tried to plunder the temple and seize the city, its inhabitants rebelled and took up arms against him. This people threw Antiochus and his men out. They fled and returned very much humiliated. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
He had marched to Jerusalem to level it and turn it into a cemetery. But now he even promised to declare it a free city. (2 Maccabees 9, 14)
With God's help Maccabeus and his men seized the Temple and the city. (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
After praying, they armed themselves and advanced from the city. They stopped when they came close to the enemy. (2 Maccabees 10, 27)
