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But, leaning close to him, she spoke in their native tongue as follows, deriding the cruel tyrant: "My son, have pity on me. I carried you nine months in my womb, and nursed you for three years, and have reared you and brought you up to this point in your life, and have taken care of you. (2 Maccabees 7, 27)
But Judas, who was also called Maccabeus, and his companions secretly entered the villages and summoned their kinsmen and enlisted those who had continued in the Jewish faith, and so they gathered about six thousand men. (2 Maccabees 8, 1)
and to remember also the lawless destruction of the innocent babies and the blasphemies committed against his name, and to show his hatred of evil. (2 Maccabees 8, 4)
Coming without warning, he would set fire to towns and villages. He captured strategic positions and put to flight not a few of the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
Nicanor determined to make up for the king the tribute due to the Romans, two thousand talents, by selling the captured Jews into slavery. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
But Maccabeus gathered his men together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of Gentiles who were wickedly coming against them, but to fight nobly, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
Moreover, he told them of the times when help came to their ancestors; both the time of Sennacherib, when one hundred and eighty-five thousand perished, (2 Maccabees 8, 19)
and the time of the battle with the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand in all went into the affair, with four thousand Macedonians; and when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand and took much booty. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
He appointed his brothers also, Simon and Joseph and Jonathan, each to command a division, putting fifteen hundred men under each. (2 Maccabees 8, 22)
They captured the money of those who had come to buy them as slaves. After pursuing them for some distance, they were obliged to return because the hour was late. (2 Maccabees 8, 25)
After the sabbath they gave some of the spoils to those who had been tortured and to the widows and orphans, and distributed the rest among themselves and their children. (2 Maccabees 8, 28)
In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided very much plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
