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And so the last brother met his end undefiled and with perfect trust in the Lord. (2 Maccabees 7, 40)
When Philip saw Judas was making steady progress and winning more and more frequent successes, he wrote to Ptolemy, the general officer commanding Coele-Syria and Phoenicia, asking for reinforcements in the royal interest. (2 Maccabees 8, 8)
putting his brothers, Simon, Joseph and Jonathan in command of one division each, and assigning them fifteen hundred men apiece. (2 Maccabees 8, 22)
in that the very eyes of this godless man teemed with worms and his flesh rotted away while he lingered on in agonising pain, and the stench of his decay sickened the whole army. (2 Maccabees 9, 9)
Finding no respite at all from his suffering, God's just sentence having overtaken him, he abandoned all hope for himself and wrote the Jews the letter transcribed below, which takes the form of an appeal in these terms: (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
When Maccabaeus was told what had happened, he summoned the people's commanders and accused the offenders of having sold their brothers for money by releasing their enemies to fight them. (2 Maccabees 10, 21)
Timotheus had hidden in a storage-well, but they killed him, with his brother Chaereas, and Apollophanes. (2 Maccabees 10, 37)
Maccabaeus himself was the first to take up his weapons, and he urged the rest to risk their lives with him in support of their brothers; so they sallied out resolutely, as one man. (2 Maccabees 11, 7)
Here is the text of the letter Lysias wrote to the Jews: 'Lysias to the Jewish people, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 16)
The king's letter ran as follows: 'King Antiochus to his brother Lysias, greetings. (2 Maccabees 11, 22)
and after invoking God, the just judge, he attacked his brothers' murderers. Under cover of dark he set fire to the port, burned the boats and put to the sword everyone who had taken refuge there. (2 Maccabees 12, 6)
Timotheus himself, having fallen into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater and their men, very craftily pleaded with them to let him go with his life, on the grounds that he had the relatives and even the brothers of many of them in his power, and that these could otherwise expect short shrift. (2 Maccabees 12, 24)
