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But the matters on which he passed judgment should be submitted to the king. As soon as you have considered them, send someone to us with your decisions so that we may present them to your advantage, for we are on our way to Antioch. (2 Maccabees 11, 36)
After these agreements were made, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming. (2 Maccabees 12, 1)
But the King of kings aroused the anger of Antiochus against the scoundrel. When the king was shown by Lysias that Menelaus was to blame for all the trouble, he ordered him to be taken to Beroea and executed there in the customary local method. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
The king was advancing, his mind full of savage plans for inflicting on the Jews worse things than those they suffered in his father's time. (2 Maccabees 13, 9)
After a private meeting with the elders, he decided that, before the king's army could invade Judea and take possession of the city, the Jews should march out and settle the matter with God's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
Giving his men the battle cry "God's Victory," he made a night attack on the king's pavilion with a picked force of the bravest young men and killed about two thousand in the camp. They also slew the lead elephant and its rider. (2 Maccabees 13, 15)
The king, having had a taste of the Jews' daring, tried to take their positions by a stratagem. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
The king made a second attempt by negotiating with the men of Beth-zur. After giving them his pledge and receiving theirs, he withdrew (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
But Lysias took the platform, defended the treaty as well as he could and won them over by persuasion. After calming them and gaining their good will, he returned to Antioch. That is how the king's attack and withdrawal went. (2 Maccabees 13, 26)
So he went to King Demetrius in the year one hundred and fifty-one and presented him with a gold crown and a palm branch, as well as some of the customary olive branches from the temple. On that occasion he kept quiet. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
first, out of my genuine concern for the king's interests, and secondly, out of consideration for my own countrymen, since our entire nation is suffering great affliction from the unreasonable conduct of the people just mentioned. (2 Maccabees 14, 8)
When you have informed yourself in detail on these matters, O king, act in the interest of our country and its hard-pressed people with the same gracious consideration that you show toward all. (2 Maccabees 14, 9)
