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and that Lysias in particular had advanced in massive strength, only to be forced to turn and flee before the Jews; that the latter were now stronger than ever, thanks to the arms, supplies and abundant spoils acquired from the armies they had cut to pieces, (1 Maccabees 6, 6)
So they set out with a large force and, on reaching Judaea, sent emissaries to Judas and his brothers with proposals peaceable yet treacherous. (1 Maccabees 7, 10)
The latter, however, did not put any faith in their words, aware that they had come with a large force. (1 Maccabees 7, 11)
Reaching Jerusalem with a large force, Nicanor sent a friendly, yet treacherous, message to Judas and his brothers, as follows: (1 Maccabees 7, 27)
while Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had advanced to attack them with a hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very large army, had also suffered defeat at their hands; (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
His men tried to dissuade him, declaring, 'We have no strength for anything but to escape with our lives this time; then we can come back with our brothers to fight them; by ourselves we are too few.' (1 Maccabees 9, 9)
Later, Jonathan and his brother Simon were told that the sons of Amrai were celebrating an important wedding, and were escorting the bride, a daughter of one of the great notables of Canaan, from Nabata with a large retinue. (1 Maccabees 9, 37)
Bacchides at once set out with a large force, and sent secret instructions to all his allies in Judaea to seize Jonathan and his supporters. But they were unable to do this because their plan became known, (1 Maccabees 9, 60)
On hearing this, King Demetrius assembled a very large army and marched off to do battle with him. (1 Maccabees 10, 2)
King Alexander now mustered large forces and advanced against Demetrius. (1 Maccabees 10, 48)
Demetrius confirmed Apollonius as governor of Coele-Syria; the latter assembled a large force, encamped at Jamnia and sent the following message to Jonathan the high priest: (1 Maccabees 10, 69)
Hearing this, Apollonius marshalled three thousand cavalry and a large army and made his way to Azotus as though intending to march through, while in fact pressing on into the plain, since he had a great number of cavalry on which he was relying. (1 Maccabees 10, 77)
