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he said, 'Alas that I should have been born to witness the ruin of my people and the ruin of the Holy City, and to sit by while she is delivered over to her enemies, and the sanctuary into the hand of foreigners. (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
The attack was pressed home on the Sabbath itself, and they were slaughtered, with their wives and children and cattle, to the number of one thousand persons. (1 Maccabees 2, 38)
and, under their command, despatched forty thousand foot and seven thousand horse to invade the land of Judah and devastate it, as the king had ordered. (1 Maccabees 3, 39)
So they said to each other, 'Let us restore the ruins of our people and fight for our people and our sanctuary.' (1 Maccabees 3, 43)
Jerusalem was as empty as a desert, none of her children to go in and out. The sanctuary was trodden underfoot, men of an alien race held the Citadel, which had become a lodging for gentiles. There was no more rejoicing for Jacob, the flute and lyre were mute. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
Next, Judas appointed leaders for the people, to command a thousand, a hundred, fifty or ten men. (1 Maccabees 3, 55)
'Stand to your arms,' Judas told them, 'acquit yourselves bravely, in the morning be ready to fight these gentiles massed against us to destroy us and our sanctuary. (1 Maccabees 3, 58)
Gorgias took with him five thousand foot and a thousand picked cavalry, and the force moved off by night (1 Maccabees 4, 1)
First light found Judas in the plain with three thousand men, although these lacked the armour and swords they would have wished. (1 Maccabees 4, 6)
and all the stragglers fell by the sword. The pursuit continued as far as Gezer and the plains of Idumaea, Azotus and Jamnia, and the enemy lost about three thousand men. (1 Maccabees 4, 15)
The next year he mobilised sixty thousand picked troops and five thousand cavalry with the intention of finishing off the Jews. (1 Maccabees 4, 28)
They advanced into Idumaea and made their base at Beth-Zur, where Judas met them with ten thousand men. (1 Maccabees 4, 29)
