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At that, Simon relented; harry them to the death he would not, but he drove them out of the city, and cleansed all the houses where idols had stood; then, with singing of psalms and giving of thanks, he made his entry; (1 Maccabees 13, 47)
To Rome, to Sparta itself, came tidings of Jonathan’s death, and was heard right sorrowfully. (1 Maccabees 14, 16)
Others of his men he despatched to Gazara; John must be put to death, he wrote, and for the captains, they should have silver and gold and good recompense, would they but rally to his side; (1 Maccabees 16, 19)
It was not long before friends of Heliodorus were entreating Onias to call down mercy from the most High, on one that was now at death’s door. (2 Maccabees 3, 31)
What did Menelaus? He gained the ear of Andronicus and demanded that Onias should pay for it with his life. So the viceroy himself paid Onias a visit, swore friendship and overcame his suspicions; then, when he had left sanctuary, without scruple of conscience put him to death. (2 Maccabees 4, 34)
When they had wounded some of his retinue, and felled others to earth, the rest took to their heels; and there, close beside the treasury, this robber of the temple was done to death. (2 Maccabees 4, 42)
And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
and there, marked down for death by king Aretas of the Arabians, fled from city to city. An outlaw, hated and shunned by his kind, of a whole land, of a whole race, the common foe, he was driven out into Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
At another time, Philip had information that certain Jews were meeting in caves near at hand, to keep the sabbath there without remark. Not one of these would lift a hand to help himself, so great care they had of the day’s observance, and all were burned to death. (2 Maccabees 6, 11)
bequeathing to men younger than myself an example of courage; meeting, with ready resolve, an honourable death, for the sake of laws holy and august as ours are. And so without more ado he was led away to his torturing; (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
Thus he died, not only to those younger men he spoke of, but to our whole race, leaving the pattern of a brave and honourable death. (2 Maccabees 6, 31)
died with these words on his lips: Man’s sentence of death, what matters it, so there be hope in God, that shall raise up the dead? For thee, resurrection to new life shall be none. (2 Maccabees 7, 14)
