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"To the honorable Jews, our citizens, good health, prosperity and all good things from the king and general, Antiochus. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
Now Ptolemy, called Macron, was the first governor to do justice to the Jews. He was upset by injustices done against them, so he tried to solve all their problems satisfactorily. (2 Maccabees 10, 12)
It was then that Gorgias was appointed military commissioner of those regions, and began to stir up war against the Jews by any means. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
On the other hand, the Idumeans had strong fortresses and harassed the Jews. Gathering the fugitives from Jerusalem, they managed to prolong the war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
Timothy, who had been defeated before by the Jews, gathered together an enormous number of foreign troops and a great number of horses from Asia. He appeared in Judea in order to conquer it by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
When the battle was at its height, there appeared from heaven before the enemies, five radiant men riding on horses with golden bridles, who put themselves at the head of the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
Those within were confident in the strength of the fortress, so they hurled insults and curses at the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 34)
and gathered together about eighty thousand men and his entire cavalry. They advanced against the Jews intending to make the city of Jerusalem a Greek colony and (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Learning that the Jews do not wish to adopt Greek customs, as it was the will of my father, but prefer their own way of life and ask that they be allowed to live according to their laws, (2 Maccabees 11, 24)
The Jews from now on may live according to their own customs concerning their food, and be governed by their own laws as before. None of them is to be molested in any way for anything done involuntarily. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
After these agreements had been concluded, Lysias returned to the king and the Jews began to return to their fields. (2 Maccabees 12, 1)
Moreover, the inhabitants of Joppa committed this grave crime. They invited the Jews with their wives and children to a cruise on some boats they had prepared, as if they did not have any hostility. (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
