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So, before aught else was done, he sent word to the towns on the sea-coast, crying a sale of Jewish captives, and offering them at ninety for the talent; so little did he guess what divine vengeance was to overtake him. (2 Maccabees 8, 11)
There was Callisthenes, too, that had burnt down the gates of the sanctuary; when all Jerusalem was rejoicing over the victory, he took refuge within doors, and they burnt the place down about his ears; he too was served right for his godless doings. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
the very men whose lives he held so cheap had now, by divine aid, humbled him to the dust. Robe of office he must lay by, and slink by country ways all unattended to Antioch. A fine homecoming, this, with the loss of a whole army! (2 Maccabees 8, 35)
And now, in a great taking of rage, he would make the Jews suffer for the ignominy of his own defeat; on, on his chariot must be driven, and never a halt in the journey, with the divine vengeance ever at his heels. Had he not boasted, Jerusalem was his goal, and he would bury the Jewish race under the ruins of it? (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Stay, he would become a Jew himself, would go the rounds of earth, proclaiming everywhere the divine power! (2 Maccabees 9, 17)
And now the followers of Machabaeus, after prayer made for the divine assistance, delivered an attack upon the Edomite strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
Soon as the dawn broke, they engaged; on the one side, all trust in the Lord, valour’s best pledge of victory and fairer times; on the other, naught but human eagerness to inspire courage. (2 Maccabees 10, 28)
When all was over, they sang hymns of praise and gave thanks to the Lord, that had done marvellous things for Israel, and granted them victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
Yet good sense he lacked not; great loss he had sustained, and, let the Hebrews continue to rely for aid upon divine Omnipotence, he saw there was no conquering them. So he wrote, (2 Maccabees 11, 13)
The watchword he gave them was, Victory lies with God; and now, choosing out the best of his fighting men, he made a night attack upon the royal quarters. Four thousand men they slew in the camp, and the greatest of all the elephants, with the crew that rode him, (2 Maccabees 13, 15)
After this daybreak victory, won under God’s protection, (2 Maccabees 13, 17)
Such an empty braggart was this Nicanor, he thought to make a single victory of it, over all the Jews at once; (2 Maccabees 15, 6)
