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Menelaus, too, joined them and very craftily kept urging Antiochus on, not for the welfare of his own country but in the hope of being restored to office. (2 Maccabees 13, 3)
But the King of kings stirred up the anger of Antiochus against the guilty wretch, and when Lysias made it clear to the king that Menelaus was the cause of all the troubles, Antiochus gave orders for him to be taken to Beroea and there put to death by the local method of execution. (2 Maccabees 13, 4)
After separate consultation with the elders, he resolved not to wait for the king's army to invade Judaea and take possession of the city, but to march out and settle the whole matter with the Lord's help. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
He advanced on Beth-Zur, a strong fortress of the Jews, but was checked, overcome and so repulsed. (2 Maccabees 13, 19)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, supplied the enemy with secret information; the man was identified, arrested, and dealt with. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
A second time, the king parleyed with the garrison of Beth-Zur; he offered and accepted pledges of friendship, retired, then attacked Judas and his men, but lost the battle. (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
Simon, brother of Judas, engaged Nicanor but, owing to the sudden arrival of the enemy, suffered a slight reverse. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)
But in the heat of conflict he missed his thrust, and while the troops swarmed in through the doorways, he ran nimbly upstairs to the parapet and manfully threw himself down among the troops. (2 Maccabees 14, 43)
But, as they immediately drew back, he fell into the middle of the empty space. (2 Maccabees 14, 44)
He urged his men not to be dismayed by the foreigners' attacks but, keeping in mind the help that had come to them from Heaven in the past, to be confident that this time too victory would be theirs with the help of the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 15, 8)
Encouraged by the noble words of Judas, which had the power to inspire valour and give the young the spirit of mature men, they decided not to entrench themselves in a camp, but bravely to take the offensive and, in hand-to-hand fighting, to commit the result to the fortune of war, since the city, their holy religion and the Temple were in danger. (2 Maccabees 15, 17)
Maccabaeus took note of these masses confronting him, the glittering array of armour and the fierce aspect of the elephants; then, raising his hands to heaven, he called on the Lord who works miracles, in the knowledge that it is not by force of arms but as he sees fit to decide, that victory is granted by him to such as deserve it. (2 Maccabees 15, 21)
