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1In the hundred forty and ninth year it was told Judas, that Antiochus Eupator was coming with a great power into Judea, 2And with him Lysias his protector, and ruler of his affairs, having either of them a Grecian power of footmen, an hundred and ten thousand, and horsemen five thousand and three hundred, and…
1When these covenants were made, Lysias went unto the king, and the Jews were about their husbandry. 2But of the governours of several places, Timotheus, and Apollonius the son of Genneus, also Hieronymus, and Demophon, and beside them Nicanor the governor of Cyprus, would not suffer them to be quiet and live in peace. 3The…
1Not long after the, Lysias the king’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took sore displeasure for the things that were done. 2And when he had gathered about fourscore thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Jews, thinking to make the city an habitation of the Gentiles, 3And to make a…
1Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, recovered the temple and the city: 2But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down. 3And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a…
1About that time came Antiochus with dishonour out of the country of Persia 2For he had entered the city called Persepolis, and went about to rob the temple, and to hold the city; whereupon the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight; and so it happened, that Antiochus being put…
1Then Judas Maccabeus, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Jews’ religion, and assembled about six thousand men. 2And they called upon the Lord, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of…
1It came to pass also, that seven brethren with their mother were taken, and compelled by the king against the law to taste swine’s flesh, and were tormented with scourges and whips. 2But one of them that spake first said thus, What wouldest thou ask or learn of us? we are ready to die, rather…
1Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and not to live after the laws of God: 2And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of…
1About the same time Antiochus prepared his second voyage into Egypt: 2And then it happened, that through all the city, for the space almost of forty days, there were seen horsemen running in the air, in cloth of gold, and armed with lances, like a band of soldiers, 3And troops of horsemen in array, encountering…
1This Simon now, of whom we spake afore, having been a betrayer of the money, and of his country, slandered Onias, as if he had terrified Heliodorus, and been the worker of these evils. 2Thus was he bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved well of the city, and tendered his own nation,…