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Then, chanting the battle cry and hymns at the top of his voice in his ancestral tongue, by a surprise attack he routed Gorgias' troops. (2 Maccabees 12, 37)
Judas then rallied his army and moved on to the town of Adullam where, as it was the seventh day of the week, they purified themselves according to custom and kept the Sabbath. (2 Maccabees 12, 38)
All then blessed the ways of the Lord, the upright judge who brings hidden things to light, (2 Maccabees 12, 41)
and gave themselves to prayer, begging that the sin committed might be completely forgiven. Next, the valiant Judas urged the soldiers to keep themselves free from all sin, having seen with their own eyes the effects of the sin of those who had fallen; (2 Maccabees 12, 42)
after this he took a collection from them individually, amounting to nearly two thousand drachmas, and sent it to Jerusalem to have a sacrifice for sin offered, an action altogether fine and noble, prompted by his belief in the resurrection. (2 Maccabees 12, 43)
For had he not expected the fallen to rise again, it would have been superfluous and foolish to pray for the dead, (2 Maccabees 12, 44)
whereas if he had in view the splendid recompense reserved for those who make a pious end, the thought was holy and devout. Hence, he had this expiatory sacrifice offered for the dead, so that they might be released from their sin. (2 Maccabees 12, 45)
In the year one hundred and forty-nine, Judas and his men discovered that Antiochus Eupator was advancing in force against Judaea, (2 Maccabees 13, 1)
and with him Lysias his tutor and chief minister; he had moreover a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots fitted with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)
Menelaus, too, joined them and very craftily kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his own country but in the hope of being restored to office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the guilty wretch, and when Lysias made it clear to the king that Menelaus was the cause of all the troubles, Antiochus gave orders for him to be taken to Beroea and there put to death by the local method of execution. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
If anyone is convicted of sacrilegious theft or of some other heinous crime, he is taken up to the top and pushed over to perish. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
