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What a sight was this that met their eyes, when day broke! A great rabble of men past all counting, that brought up scaling-ladders and engines, as if they would take the stronghold by storm. (1 Maccabees 5, 30)
But Judas, when he drew near the ravine, had muster-masters in attendance by the stream, that were charged to let none linger behind, but send every man across into battle. (1 Maccabees 5, 42)
gone was that defiling image he had set up over the altar at Jerusalem; high walls, as of old, protected the sanctuary; nay, they had made shift to fortify his own stronghold of Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
What news was this! The king was all bewilderment and consternation; he took to his bed, fallen into a decline for very sadness that his hopes had failed him. (1 Maccabees 6, 8)
Bravely he ran up to it, there in the heart of the press, slaying to right and left of him, men falling on either side, (1 Maccabees 6, 45)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
Here is a priest of Aaron’s line, said they, in yonder company, fear we no treachery from him. (1 Maccabees 7, 14)
Little it liked Judas, to see Alcimus and his crew mishandling the men of Israel as never the Gentiles had; (1 Maccabees 7, 23)
In like manner, if the Jews be first threatened, it shall be for the Romans to give aid as the occasion demands, most willingly; (1 Maccabees 8, 27)
but these were greatly daunted when they saw what heavy odds were against them, and began to desert their lines, till no more than eight hundred of them were left. (1 Maccabees 9, 6)
By this, the opposing army had moved forward out of its lines, and stood fronting them; here were the two bodies of horse, the slingers and archers going on before the rest, and the choice troops that would bear the shock of the encounter; (1 Maccabees 9, 11)
broke their line, and chased them all the way to mount Azotus. (1 Maccabees 9, 15)
