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Then he took away with him the Jews who were in Galilee and Arbatta as well as their women and children, and all they had, and brought them into Judea with great rejoicing. (1 Maccabees 5, 23)
Timothy saw that Judas was approaching the stream with his army, so he said to the captains of his troops, "If he crosses first and advances against us, he shall attack us with such great force that we will not be able to withstand him. (1 Maccabees 5, 40)
Judas gathered together all the Israelites from the region of Gilead, small and great, their women and children and their belongings, an immense multitude, to take them into the land of Judea. (1 Maccabees 5, 45)
Then they passed through the city over the bodies of the dead and came to the great plain after crossing the Jordan opposite Bethshan. (1 Maccabees 5, 52)
The people suffered this great defeat because the Jewish commanders did not listen to Judas and his brothers, thinking they themselves were capable of great deeds. (1 Maccabees 5, 61)
The Jews trembled when they heard the great noise of this vast multitude, the marching of that mass and the clanking of their weapons. It was indeed an army extremely numerous and powerful. (1 Maccabees 6, 41)
and all who disturbed the peace of the people joined him. They became masters of the land of Judea and did great harm to the Israelites. (1 Maccabees 7, 22)
and how they had conquered that land by dint of intelligence and perseverance, despite its great distance from their own land. He also learned how they had defeated the kings who came from the ends of the earth to attack them, how they managed to conquer and crush them. There were others who paid them an annual tax. (1 Maccabees 8, 4)
They had vanquished Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who went to fight the Romans with one hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very strong army. But he was defeated (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
but hearing of it, the Romans sent a single general against them. They killed a great number of Greeks, took their women and children, destroyed their fortresses and enslaved them to this day. (1 Maccabees 8, 10)
After this had happened, Jonathan and his brother Simon were told that the Yambrites were celebrating a solemn wedding and were escorting the bride, a daughter of one of the magnates, from Nadabath with great pomp. (1 Maccabees 9, 37)
At a certain moment they heard a confusion of sounds; then they saw a great deal of baggage. The bride groom, his friends and brothers came straight to them with tambourines, musical instruments and many weapons. (1 Maccabees 9, 39)
