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As the king ordered, he fortified Kedron and stationed horsemen and infantry there, so that they could go out and patrol the roads of Judea. (1 Maccabees 15, 41)
Then Ptolemy wrote an account of this and sent it to the king, asking that troops be sent to help him and that the country be turned over to him. (1 Maccabees 16, 18)
Dated in the year one hundred and eighty-eight. The people of Jerusalem and Judea, the senate, and Judas send greetings and good wishes to Aristobulus, counselor of King Ptolemy and member of the family of the anointed priests, and to the Jews in Egypt. (2 Maccabees 1, 10)
Since we have been saved by God from grave dangers, we give him great thanks for having fought on our side against the king; (2 Maccabees 1, 11)
Many years later, when it so pleased God, Nehemiah, commissioned by the king of Persia, sent the descendants of the priests who had hidden the fire to look for it. (2 Maccabees 1, 20)
The prayer was as follows: "Lord, Lord God, creator of all things, awesome and strong, just and merciful, the only king and benefactor, (2 Maccabees 1, 24)
When the event became known and the king of the Persians was told that, in the very place where the exiled priests had hidden the fire, a liquid was found with which Nehemiah and his people had burned the sacrifices, (2 Maccabees 1, 33)
the king, after verifying the fact, fenced the place off and declared it sacred. (2 Maccabees 1, 34)
To those on whom the king wished to bestow favors he distributed the large revenues he received there. (2 Maccabees 1, 35)
Thus Seleucus, king of Asia, defrayed from his own revenues all the expenses necessary for the sacrificial services. (2 Maccabees 3, 3)
and reported to him that the treasury in Jerusalem was so full of untold riches that the total sum of money was incalculable and out of all proportion to the cost of the sacrifices, and that it would be possible to bring it all under the control of the king. (2 Maccabees 3, 6)
When Apollonius had an audience with the king, he informed him about the riches that had been reported to him. The king chose his minister Heliodorus and sent him with instructions to expropriate the aforesaid wealth. (2 Maccabees 3, 7)
