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They prayed that if the Lord would not save them because of their own merits, that at least out of consideration for the covenant he made with their fathers and for that great venerable Name with which he had blessed his people, he would do so. (2 Maccabees 8, 15)
When he entered a city called Persepolis, and tried to plunder the temple and seize the city, its inhabitants rebelled and took up arms against him. This people threw Antiochus and his men out. They fled and returned very much humiliated. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
When Antiochus came to Ecbatana, he was informed of what had happened to the two generals - Nicanor and Timotheus - in Israel. (2 Maccabees 9, 3)
Then the Lord who sees all, the God of Israel, punished him with an incurable sickness of an internal nature. (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
As soon as Maccabeus learned this, he assembled the leaders of the people and accused those men of having sold their brothers for money by letting their enemies escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
When all this was over, they chanted hymns and praises to the Lord who had exalted Israel and had given them victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
When the men of Maccabeus learned that Lysias had begun laying siege to their strong cities, they prayed to the Lord together with all the people, with tears and lamentations, that the Lord might send a good angel to save Israel. (2 Maccabees 11, 6)
Lysias wrote to them as follows: "From Lysias to the Jewish people, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
This was the king's letter to the Jewish people: "King Antiochus to the Council of Elders and to the Jewish people: greetings! (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
The Romans also sent them a letter which read as follows: "Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, ambassadors of the Romans, send their greetings to the Jewish people. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
He also attacked the people of Jamnia by night, and set the harbor and ships on fire. The blaze was so great that the glow could be seen even from Jerusalem, some fifty kilometers away. (2 Maccabees 12, 9)
Judas attacked a city strongly fortified with ditches and walls. The city was called Caspin. People of every race lived there. (2 Maccabees 12, 13)
