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At his approach, Maccabaeus and his men made their supplications to God, sprinkling earth on their heads and putting sackcloth round their waists. (2 Maccabees 10, 25)
surrounding Maccabaeus and screening him with their own armour, they kept him unscathed, while they rained arrows and thunderbolts on the enemy until, blinded and confused, they scattered in complete disorder. (2 Maccabees 10, 30)
Others, in a similar scaling operation, took the defenders in the rear, and set fire to the towers, lighting pyres on which they burned the blasphemers alive. The first, meanwhile, breaking open the gates, let the rest of the army in and, at their head, captured the town. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
Accordingly, since we intend this people to be free from vexation like any other, our ruling is that the Temple be restored to them and that they conduct their affairs according to the customs of their ancestors. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
Judas pursued them with a will, cutting the sinners to pieces and killing something like thirty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 12, 23)
A man called Dositheus, a horseman of the Tubian contingent, a valiant man, overpowered Gorgias and, gripping him by the cloak, was forcibly dragging him along, intending to take the accursed man alive, but one of the Thracian cavalry, hurling himself on Dositheus, slashed his shoulder and Gorgias escaped to Marisa. (2 Maccabees 12, 35)
The king flew into a rage; roused by the slanders of this villain, he wrote to Nicanor, telling him of his strong displeasure at these agreements and ordering him immediately to send Maccabaeus to Antioch in chains. (2 Maccabees 14, 27)
he stretched out his right hand towards the Temple and swore this oath, 'If you do not hand Judas over to me as prisoner, I shall rase this dwelling of God to the ground, I shall demolish the altar, and on this very spot I shall erect a splendid temple to Dionysus.' (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
With these words he left them. The priests stretched out their hands to heaven, calling on him who has at all times done battle for our nation; this was their prayer: (2 Maccabees 14, 34)
Now, therefore, holy Lord of all holiness, preserve for ever from all profanation this House, so newly purified.' (2 Maccabees 14, 36)
reckoning that if he eliminated this man he would be dealing them a severe blow. (2 Maccabees 14, 40)
When the troops were on the point of capturing the tower and were forcing the outer door and calling for fire to set the doors alight, Razis, finding himself completely surrounded, fell on his own sword, (2 Maccabees 14, 41)
