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Furthermore, when we have won back our kingdom, we shall bestow such great honour on yourself, your nation and the sanctuary as will make your glory known throughout the world.' (1 Maccabees 15, 9)
As regards Joppa and Gezer, which you claim, these were towns that did great harm to our people and laid waste our country; we are prepared to give a hundred talents for them.' Without so much as a word in answer, (1 Maccabees 15, 35)
Ptolemy son of Abubos had been appointed general in command of the Plain of Jericho; he owned a great deal of silver and gold, (1 Maccabees 16, 11)
The son of Abubos lured them into a small fortress called Dok, which he had built, where he offered them a great banquet, having previously hidden men in the place. (1 Maccabees 16, 15)
He thus committed a great act of treachery and rendered evil for good. (1 Maccabees 16, 17)
'Since we have been rescued by God from great danger, we give him great thanks for championing our cause against the king, (2 Maccabees 1, 11)
When this had been done, and when in due course the sun, which had previously been clouded over, shone out, a great fire flared up, to the astonishment of all. (2 Maccabees 1, 22)
as he has promised in the Law, will surely, as our hope is in him, be swift to show us mercy and gather us together from everywhere under heaven to the holy place, since he has rescued us from great evils and has purified it.' (2 Maccabees 2, 18)
The story of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the great Temple, the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)
He had already arrived with his bodyguard near the Treasury, when the Sovereign of spirits and of every power caused so great an apparition that all who had dared to accompany Heliodorus were dumbfounded at the power of God and reduced to abject terror. (2 Maccabees 3, 24)
this man who but a moment before had made his way into the Treasury, as we said above, with a great retinue and his whole bodyguard; and as they carried him away, powerless to help himself, they openly acknowledged the sovereign power of God. (2 Maccabees 3, 28)
and so the holy place itself, having shared the disasters that befell the people, in due course also shared their good fortune; having been abandoned by the Almighty in his anger, once the great Sovereign was placated it was reinstated in all its glory. (2 Maccabees 5, 20)
