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there had been a public vote by the citizens, and the Jews accepted, as well they might, being peaceable people with no reason to suspect anything. But once out in the open sea they were all sent to the bottom, a company of at least two hundred. (2 Maccabees 12, 4)
But hearing that the people of Jamnia were planning to treat their resident Jews in the same way, (2 Maccabees 12, 8)
When at long last he convinced them that he would honour his promise and return these people safe and sound, they let him go for the sake of saving their brothers. (2 Maccabees 12, 25)
But the Jews, having invoked the Sovereign who by his power shatters enemies' defences, gained control of the town and cut down nearly twenty-five thousand of the people inside. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
seventy-five miles from Jerusalem. But as the Jews who had settled there assured Judas that the people of Scythopolis had always treated them well and had been particularly kind to them when times were at their worst, (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
When Judas heard of this, he ordered the people day and night to call on the Lord as never before, to come to the help of those who were in peril of being deprived of the Law, their fatherland and the holy Temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
and not to allow the people, just when they were beginning to breathe again, to fall into the power of ill-famed foreigners. (2 Maccabees 13, 11)
The king, having had a taste of Jewish daring, now tried to capture their positions by trickery. (2 Maccabees 13, 18)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, supplied the enemy with secret information; the man was identified, arrested, and dealt with. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
When the Jews heard that Nicanor was coming and that the foreigners were about to attack, they sprinkled dust over themselves and made supplication to him who had established his people for ever and who never failed to support his own heritage by direct manifestations. (2 Maccabees 14, 15)
What he had seen was this: Onias, the former high priest, that paragon of men, modest of bearing and gentle of manners, suitably eloquent and trained from boyhood in the practice of every virtue -- Onias was stretching out his hands and praying for the whole Jewish community. (2 Maccabees 15, 12)
Onias began to speak: 'This is a man', he said, 'who loves his brothers and prays much for the people and the holy city-Jeremiah, the prophet of God.' (2 Maccabees 15, 14)
