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But as the young man did not pay him any attention, the king ordered the mother to be brought in. He urged her to advise her son in order to save his life. (2 Maccabees 7, 25)
When she finished speaking, the young man said, "What are you waiting for? I do not obey the king's order but the precepts of the Law given by Moses to our fathers. (2 Maccabees 7, 30)
Ptolemy at once appointed Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the king's first Friends, and sent him at the head of some twenty thousand men coming from all nations, with the order to wipe out all the Jews. At his side, he put Gorgias, a general of much experience in matters of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Nicanor intended to raise two thousand talents by the sale of Jewish slaves in order to pay for the tribute the king owed to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
So the cowardly and those who had no confidence in divine justice took to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 13)
Only when he was beaten by the divine scourge did he begin to shed his arrogance. His pains grew worse, and he realized this was the punishment of God. (2 Maccabees 9, 11)
But the Friends of King Eupator made use of this to accuse him before the king. They continually called him a traitor, reminding him that he had once abandoned the land of Cyprus, which had been entrusted to him by Philometor, in order to go over to Antiochus Epiphanes. Since he could not discharge his high office with dignity, he was driven to despair and committed suicide by poisoning himself. (2 Maccabees 10, 13)
Timothy, who had been defeated before by the Jews, gathered together an enormous number of foreign troops and a great number of horses from Asia. He appeared in Judea in order to conquer it by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)
Most of them fled, wounded and disarmed, until Lysias himself fled in disgrace in order to save himself. (2 Maccabees 11, 12)
This was decided by the city authorities and the Jews accepted in order to show their desire to live with them in peace and without any suspicion at all. But once out in the open sea, the men of Joppa pushed them into the water and at least two hundred died. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
When he had convinced them by the strength of his words, they let him go in order to save their brothers. (2 Maccabees 12, 25)
Once all the people had carried out the order to pray to the merciful Lord with lamentations, fasting and prayer for three consecutive days, Judas encouraged them and commanded them to stand ready. (2 Maccabees 13, 12)
