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Speak we of that temple, the most famous in all the world, by their means recovered, of a city set free, of forgotten laws re-established, and how the Lord, in his great complaisance, shewed them mercy. (2 Maccabees 2, 23)
Time was, the holy city was a home of content; ever the laws of it were well kept; such a high priest they had, Onias, a devout man, and one that hated evil. (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
Men had reposed their confidence in a city and a temple renowned throughout the world, for the high opinion they had of its sanctity; and should he play them false? It was not to be thought of. (2 Maccabees 3, 12)
So the appointed day came, when he would visit the temple and take order in the matter; what a stir there was then in the city! (2 Maccabees 3, 14)
Here, then, was a whole city praying Almighty God, no loss might befall the men who had trusted them; (2 Maccabees 3, 22)
where Jason and the whole city welcomed him in state, with carrying of torches and great huzza’ing. And so he led his army back to Phoenice. (2 Maccabees 4, 22)
Here were men come to plead for their own city, their own people, their own temple treasures, and must they be hurried off to undeserved punishment? (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
And all about the city of Jerusalem, by the space of forty days together, there were strange sights appearing. High up in air, horsemen were seen riding this way and that, in vesture of gold, and spears they carried as if they went to battle; (2 Maccabees 5, 2)
And now a false rumour went abroad, Antiochus had come by his death. Jason’s ears it reached, and all at once, with full a thousand men at his back, he delivered an assault upon the city. Let the townsfolk man the walls as they would, at last it fell, and Menelaus must take refuge within the citadel. (2 Maccabees 5, 5)
and there, marked down for death by king Aretas of the Arabians, fled from city to city. An outlaw, hated and shunned by his kind, of a whole land, of a whole race, the common foe, he was driven out into Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Here was news to make the king doubt whether the Jews were loyal to him, and back he came from Egypt in a great taking of rage. He occupied the city, and that by force of arms; (2 Maccabees 5, 11)
But what would you? People it was God chose, and city for people’s sake; (2 Maccabees 5, 19)
