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We, on our part, are informing you that your cattle and your possessions are ours, and ours are yours. We have, therefore, given orders that you should be told of this." (1 Maccabees 12, 23)
The people therefore worked together on building up the city, for part of the east wall above the ravine had collapsed. The quarter called Chaphenatha was also repaired. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
Simon, on his part, built up the strongholds of Judea, strengthening their fortifications with high towers, thick walls, and gates with bars, and he stored up provisions in the fortresses. (1 Maccabees 13, 33)
The high priest explained that part of the money was a care fund for widows and orphans, (2 Maccabees 3, 10)
and a part was the property of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man who occupied a very high position. Contrary to the calumnies of the impious Simon, the total amounted to four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 11)
that the priests no longer cared about the service of the altar. Disdaining the temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened, at the signal for the discus-throwing, to take part in the unlawful exercises on the athletic field. (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
With the Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy, wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, and put all of them to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 24)
Far from giving up his insolence, he was all the more filled with arrogance. Breathing fire in his rage against the Jews, he gave orders to drive even faster. As a result he hurtled from the dashing chariot, and every part of his body was racked by the violent fall. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
Maccabeus, solicitous for the common good, agreed to all that Lysias proposed; and the king, on his part, granted in behalf of the Jews all the written requests of Maccabeus to Lysias. (2 Maccabees 11, 15)
he said, "I, on my part, am ruler on earth, and my orders are that you take up arms and carry out the king's business." Nevertheless he did not succeed in carrying out his cruel plan. (2 Maccabees 15, 5)
For them, love and hatred and rivalry have long since perished. They will never again have part in anything that is done under the sun. (Ecclesiastes 9, 6)
Dispute not about what is not your concern; in the strife of the arrogant take no part. (Ecclesiasticus 11, 9)
