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After consulting privately with the elders, he determined to march out and decide the matter by the help of God before the king's army could enter Judea and get possession of the city. (2 Maccabees 13, 13)
The king negotiated a second time with the people in Beth-zur, gave pledges, received theirs, withdrew, attacked Judas and his men, was defeated; (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
He received Maccabeus, left Hegemonides as governor from Ptolemais to Gerar, (2 Maccabees 13, 24)
and went to King Demetrius in about the one hundred and fifty-first year, presenting to him a crown of gold and a palm, and besides these some of the customary olive branches from the temple. During that day he kept quiet. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
For as long as Judas lives, it is impossible for the government to find peace." (2 Maccabees 14, 10)
Therefore he sent Posidonius and Theodotus and Mattathias to give and receive pledges of friendship. (2 Maccabees 14, 19)
But Maccabeus, noticing that Nicanor was more austere in his dealings with him and was meeting him more rudely than had been his custom, concluded that this austerity did not spring from the best motives. So he gathered not a few of his men, and went into hiding from Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 14, 30)
Nicanor, wishing to exhibit the enmity which he had for the Jews, sent more than five hundred soldiers to arrest him; (2 Maccabees 14, 39)
Still alive and aflame with anger, he rose, and though his blood gushed forth and his wounds were severe he ran through the crowd; and standing upon a steep rock, (2 Maccabees 14, 45)
with his blood now completely drained from him, he tore out his entrails, took them with both hands and hurled them at the crowd, calling upon the Lord of life and spirit to give them back to him again. This was the manner of his death. (2 Maccabees 14, 46)
And when they declared, "It is the living Lord himself, the Sovereign in heaven, who ordered us to observe the seventh day," (2 Maccabees 15, 4)
And he exhorted his men not to fear the attack of the Gentiles, but to keep in mind the former times when help had come to them from heaven, and now to look for the victory which the Almighty would give them. (2 Maccabees 15, 8)
