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2 Esdr 15:61 And thou shalt be cast down by them as stubble, and they shall be unto thee as fire;
2 Esdr 15:62 And shall consume thee, and thy cities, thy land, and thy mountains; all thy woods and thy fruitful trees shall they burn up with fire.
2 Esdr 15:63 Thy children shall they carry away captive, and, look, what thou hast, they shall spoil it, and mar the beauty of thy face.
2 Esdr 16:1 Woe be unto thee, Babylon, and Asia! woe be unto thee, Egypt and Syria!
2 Esdr 16:2 Gird up yourselves with cloths of sack and hair, bewail your children, and be sorry; for your destruction is at hand.
2 Esdr 16:3 A sword is sent upon you, and who may turn it back?
2 Esdr 16:4 A fire is sent among you, and who may quench it?
2 Esdr 16:5 Plagues are sent unto you, and what is he that may drive them away?
2 Esdr 16:6 May any man drive away an hungry lion in the wood? or may any one quench the fire in stubble, when it hath begun to burn?
2 Esdr 16:7 May one turn again the arrow that is shot of a strong archer?
2 Esdr 16:8 The mighty Lord sendeth the plagues and who is he that can drive them away?
2 Esdr 16:9 A fire shall go forth from his wrath, and who is he that may quench it?
2 Esdr 16:10 He shall cast lightnings, and who shall not fear? he shall thunder, and who shall not be afraid?
2 Esdr 16:11 The Lord shall threaten, and who shall not be utterly beaten to powder at his presence?
2 Esdr 16:12 The earth quaketh, and the foundations thereof; the sea ariseth up with waves from the deep, and the waves of it are troubled, and the fishes thereof also, before the Lord, and before the glory of his power:
2 Esdr 16:13 For strong is his right hand that bendeth the bow, his arrows that he shooteth are sharp, and shall not miss, when they begin to be shot into the ends of the world.
2 Esdr 16:14 Behold, the plagues are sent, and shall not return again, until they come upon the earth.
2 Esdr 16:15 The fire is kindled, and shall not be put out, till it consume the foundation of the earth.
2 Esdr 16:16 Like as an arrow which is shot of a mighty archer returneth not backward: even so the plagues that shall be sent upon earth shall not return again.
2 Esdr 16:17 Woe is me! woe is me! who will deliver me in those days?
2 Esdr 16:18 The beginning of sorrows and great mournings; the beginning of famine and great death; the beginning of wars, and the powers shall stand in fear; the beginning of evils! what shall I do when these evils shall come?
2 Esdr 16:19 Behold, famine and plague, tribulation and anguish, are sent as scourges for amendment.
2 Esdr 16:20 But for all these things they shall not turn from their wickedness, nor be always mindful of the scourges.
2 Esdr 16:21 Behold, victuals shall be so good cheap upon earth, that they shall think themselves to be in good case, and even then shall evils grow upon earth, sword, famine, and great confusion.
2 Esdr 16:22 For many of them that dwell upon earth shall perish of famine; and the other, that escape the hunger, shall the sword destroy.
2 Esdr 16:23 And the dead shall be cast out as dung, and there shall be no man to comfort them: for the earth shall be wasted, and the cities shall be cast down.
2 Esdr 16:24 There shall be no man left to till the earth, and to sow it
2 Esdr 16:25 The trees shall give fruit, and who shall gather them?
2 Esdr 16:26 The grapes shall ripen, and who shall tread them? for all places shall be desolate of men:
2 Esdr 16:27 So that one man shall desire to see another, and to hear his voice.
2 Esdr 16:28 For of a city there shall be ten left, and two of the field, which shall hide themselves in the thick groves, and in the clefts of the rocks.
2 Esdr 16:29 As in an orchard of Olives upon every tree there are left three or four olives;
2 Esdr 16:30 Or as when a vineyard is gathered, there are left some clusters of them that diligently seek through the vineyard:
2 Esdr 16:31 Even so in those days there shall be three or four left by them that search their houses with the sword.
2 Esdr 16:32 And the earth shall be laid waste, and the fields thereof shall wax old, and her ways and all her paths shall grow full of thorns, because no man shall travel therethrough.
2 Esdr 16:33 The virgins shall mourn, having no bridegrooms; the women shall mourn, having no husbands; their daughters shall mourn, having no helpers.
2 Esdr 16:34 In the wars shall their bridegrooms be destroyed, and their husbands shall perish of famine.
2 Esdr 16:35 Hear now these things and understand them, ye servants of the Lord.
2 Esdr 16:36 Behold, the word of the Lord, receive it: believe not the gods of whom the Lord spake.
2 Esdr 16:37 Behold, the plagues draw nigh, and are not slack.
2 Esdr 16:38 As when a woman with child in the ninth month bringeth forth her son, with two or three hours of her birth great pains compass her womb, which pains, when the child cometh forth, they slack not a moment:
2 Esdr 16:39 Even so shall not the plagues be slack to come upon the earth, and the world shall mourn, and sorrows shall come upon it on every side.
2 Esdr 16:40 O my people, hear my word: make you ready to thy battle, and in those evils be even as pilgrims upon the earth.
2 Esdr 16:41 He that selleth, let him be as he that fleeth away: and he that buyeth, as one that will lose:
2 Esdr 16:42 He that occupieth merchandise, as he that hath no profit by it: and he that buildeth, as he that shall not dwell therein:
2 Esdr 16:43 He that soweth, as if he should not reap: so also he that planteth the vineyard, as he that shall not gather the grapes:
2 Esdr 16:44 They that marry, as they that shall get no children; and they that marry not, as the widowers.
2 Esdr 16:45 And therefore they that labour labour in vain:
2 Esdr 16:46 For strangers shall reap their fruits, and spoil their goods, overthrow their houses, and take their children captives, for in captivity and famine shall they get children.
2 Esdr 16:47 And they that occupy their merchandise with robbery, the more they deck their cities, their houses, their possessions, and their own persons:
2 Esdr 16:48 The more will I be angry with them for their sin, saith the Lord.
2 Esdr 16:49 Like as a whore envieth a right honest and virtuous woman:
2 Esdr 16:50 So shall righteousness hate iniquity, when she decketh herself, and shall accuse her to her face, when he cometh that shall defend him that diligently searcheth out every sin upon earth.
2 Esdr 16:51 And therefore be ye not like thereunto, nor to the works thereof.
2 Esdr 16:52 For yet a little, and iniquity shall be taken away out of the earth, and righteousness shall reign among you.
2 Esdr 16:53 Let not the sinner say that he hath not sinned: for God shall burn coals of fire upon his head, which saith before the Lord God and his glory, I have not sinned.
2 Esdr 16:54 Behold, the Lord knoweth all the works of men, their imaginations, their thoughts, and their hearts:
2 Esdr 16:55 Which spake but the word, Let the earth be made; and it was made: Let the heaven be made; and it was created.
2 Esdr 16:56 In his word were the stars made, and he knoweth the number of them.
2 Esdr 16:57 He searcheth the deep, and the treasures thereof; he hath measured the sea, and what it containeth.
2 Esdr 16:58 He hath shut the sea in the midst of the waters, and with his word hath he hanged the earth upon the waters.
2 Esdr 16:59 He spreadeth out the heavens like a vault; upon the waters hath he founded it.
2 Esdr 16:60 In the desert hath he made springs of water, and pools upon the tops of the mountains, that the floods might pour down from the high rocks to water the earth.
2 Esdr 16:61 He made man, and put his heart in the midst of the body, and gave him breath, life, and understanding.
2 Esdr 16:62 Yea and the Spirit of Almighty God, which made all things, and searcheth out all hidden things in the secrets of the earth,
2 Esdr 16:63 Surely he knoweth your inventions, and what ye think in your hearts, even them that sin, and would hide their sin.
2 Esdr 16:64 Therefore hath the Lord exactly searched out all your works, and he will put you all to shame.
2 Esdr 16:65 And when your sins are brought forth, ye shall be ashamed before men, and your own sins shall be your accusers in that day.
2 Esdr 16:66 What will ye do? or how will ye hide your sins before God and his angels?
2 Esdr 16:67 Behold, God himself is the judge, fear him: leave off from your sins, and forget your iniquities, to meddle no more with them for ever: so shall God lead you forth, and deliver you from all trouble.
2 Esdr 16:68 For, behold, the burning wrath of a great multitude is kindled over you, and they shall take away certain of you, and feed you, being idle, with things offered unto idols.
2 Esdr 16:69 And they that consent unto them shall be had in derision and in reproach, and trodden under foot.
2 Esdr 16:70 For there shall be in every place, and in the next cities, a great insurrection upon those that fear the Lord.
2 Esdr 16:71 They shall be like mad men, sparing none, but still spoiling and destroying those that fear the Lord.
2 Esdr 16:72 For they shall waste and take away their goods, and cast them out of their houses.
2 Esdr 16:73 Then shall they be known, who are my chosen; and they shall be tried as the gold in the fire.
2 Esdr 16:74 Hear, O ye my beloved, saith the Lord: behold, the days of trouble are at hand, but I will deliver you from the same.
2 Esdr 16:75 Be ye not afraid neither doubt; for God is your guide,
2 Esdr 16:76 And the guide of them who keep my commandments and precepts, saith the Lord God: let not your sins weigh you down, and let not your iniquities lift up themselves.
2 Esdr 16:77 Woe be unto them that are bound with their sins, and covered with their iniquities like as a field is covered over with bushes, and the path thereof covered with thorns, that no man may travel through!
2 Esdr 16:78 It is left undressed, and is cast into the fire to be consumed therewith.
The Greek Additions to Esther [The Rest of the Chapters of the Book of Esther]
AddEsth 10:4 Then Mardocheus said, God hath done these things.
AddEsth 10:5 For I remember a dream which I saw concerning these matters, and nothing thereof hath failed.
AddEsth 10:6 A little fountain became a river, and there was light, and the sun, and much water: this river is Esther, whom the king married, and made queen:
AddEsth 10:7 And the two dragons are I and Aman.
AddEsth 10:8 And the nations were those that were assembled to destroy the name of the Jews:
AddEsth 10:9 And my nation is this Israel, which cried to God, and were saved: for the Lord hath saved his people, and the Lord hath delivered us from all those evils, and God hath wrought signs and great wonders, which have not been done among the Gentiles.
AddEsth 10:10 Therefore hath he made two lots, one for the people of God, and another for all the Gentiles.
AddEsth 10:11 And these two lots came at the hour, and time, and day of judgment, before God among all nations.
AddEsth 10:12 So God remembered his people, and justified his inheritance.
AddEsth 10:13 Therefore those days shall be unto them in the month Adar, the fourteenth and fifteenth day of the same month, with an assembly, and joy, and with gladness before God, according to the generations for ever among his people.
AddEsth 11:1 In the fourth year of the reign of Ptolemeus and Cleopatra, Dositheus, who said he was a priest and Levite, and Ptolemeus his son, brought this epistle of Phurim, which they said was the same, and that Lysimachus the son of Ptolemeus, that was in Jerusalem, had interpreted it.
AddEsth 11:2 In the second year of the reign of Artexerxes the great, in the first day of the month Nisan, Mardocheus the son of Jairus, the son of Semei, the son of Cisai, of the tribe of Benjamin, had a dream;
AddEsth 11:3 Who was a Jew, and dwelt in the city of Susa, a great man, being a servitor in the king's court.
AddEsth 11:4 He was also one of the captives, which Nabuchodonosor the king of Babylon carried from Jerusalem with Jechonias king of Judea; and this was his dream:
AddEsth 11:5 Behold a noise of a tumult, with thunder, and earthquakes, and uproar in the land:
AddEsth 11:6 And, behold, two great dragons came forth ready to fight, and their cry was great.
AddEsth 11:7 And at their cry all nations were prepared to battle, that they might fight against the righteous people.
AddEsth 11:8 And lo a day of darkness and obscurity, tribulation and anguish, affliction and great uproar, upon earth.
AddEsth 11:9 And the whole righteous nation was troubled, fearing their own evils, and were ready to perish.
AddEsth 11:10 Then they cried unto God, and upon their cry, as it were from a little fountain, was made a great flood, even much water.
AddEsth 11:11 The light and the sun rose up, and the lowly were exalted, and devoured the glorious.
AddEsth 11:12 Now when Mardocheus, who had seen this dream, and what God had determined to do, was awake, he bare this dream in mind, and until night by all means was desirous to know it.
AddEsth 12:1 And Mardocheus took his rest in the court with Gabatha and Tharra, the two eunuchs of the king, and keepers of the palace.
AddEsth 12:2 And he heard their devices, and searched out their purposes, and learned that they were about to lay hands upon Artexerxes the king; and so he certified the king of them.
AddEsth 12:3 Then the king examined the two eunuchs, and after that they had confessed it, they were strangled.
AddEsth 12:4 And the king made a record of these things, and Mardocheus also wrote thereof.
AddEsth 12:5 So the king commanded, Mardocheus to serve in the court, and for this he rewarded him.
AddEsth 12:6 Howbeit Aman the son of Amadathus the Agagite, who was in great honour with the king, sought to molest Mardocheus and his people because of the two eunuchs of the king.
AddEsth 13:1 The copy of the letters was this: The great king Artexerxes writeth these things to the princes and governours that are under him from India unto Ethiopia in an hundred and seven and twenty provinces.
AddEsth 13:2 After that I became lord over many nations and had dominion over the whole world, not lifted up with presumption of my authority, but carrying myself always with equity and mildness, I purposed to settle my subjects continually in a quiet life, and making my kingdom peaceable, and open for passage to the utmost coasts, to renew peace, which is desired of all men.
AddEsth 13:3 Now when I asked my counsellors how this might be brought to pass, Aman, that excelled in wisdom among us, and was approved for his constant good will and steadfast fidelity, and had the honour of the second place in the kingdom,
AddEsth 13:4 Declared unto us, that in all nations throughout the world there was scattered a certain malicious people, that had laws contrary to ail nations, and continually despised the commandments of kings, so as the uniting of our kingdoms, honourably intended by us cannot go forward.
AddEsth 13:5 Seeing then we understand that this people alone is continually in opposition unto all men, differing in the strange manner of their laws, and evil affected to our state, working all the mischief they can that our kingdom may not be firmly established:
AddEsth 13:6 Therefore have we commanded, that all they that are signified in writing unto you by Aman, who is ordained over the affairs, and is next unto us, shall all, with their wives and children, be utterly destroyed by the sword of their enemies, without all mercy and pity, the fourteenth day of the twelfth month Adar of this present year:
AddEsth 13:7 That they, who of old and now also are malicious, may in one day with violence go into the grave, and so ever hereafter cause our affairs to be well settled, and without trouble.
AddEsth 13:8 Then Mardocheus thought upon all the works of the Lord, and made his prayer unto him,
AddEsth 13:9 Saying, O Lord, Lord, the King Almighty: for the whole world is in thy power, and if thou hast appointed to save Israel, there is no man that can gainsay thee:
AddEsth 13:10 For thou hast made heaven and earth, and all the wondrous things under the heaven.
AddEsth 13:11 Thou art Lord of all things, and and there is no man that can resist thee, which art the Lord.
AddEsth 13:12 Thou knowest all things, and thou knowest, Lord, that it was neither in contempt nor pride, nor for any desire of glory, that I did not bow down to proud Aman.
AddEsth 13:13 For I could have been content with good will for the salvation of Israel to kiss the soles of his feet.
AddEsth 13:14 But I did this, that I might not prefer the glory of man above the glory of God: neither will I worship any but thee, O God, neither will I do it in pride.
AddEsth 13:15 And now, O Lord God and King, spare thy people: for their eyes are upon us to bring us to nought; yea, they desire to destroy the inheritance, that hath been thine from the beginning.
AddEsth 13:16 Despise not the portion, which thou hast delivered out of Egypt for thine own self.
AddEsth 13:17 Hear my prayer, and be merciful unto thine inheritance: turn our sorrow into joy, that we may live, O Lord, and praise thy name: and destroy not the mouths of them that praise thee, O Lord.
AddEsth 13:18 All Israel in like manner cried most earnestly unto the Lord, because their death was before their eyes.
AddEsth 14:1 Queen Esther also, being in fear of death, resorted unto the Lord:
AddEsth 14:2 And laid away her glorious apparel, and put on the garments of anguish and mourning: and instead of precious ointments, she covered her head with ashes and dung, and she humbled her body greatly, and all the places of her joy she filled with her torn hair.
AddEsth 14:3 And she prayed unto the Lord God of Israel, saying, O my Lord, thou only art our King: help me, desolate woman, which have no helper but thee:
AddEsth 14:4 For my danger is in mine hand.
AddEsth 14:5 From my youth up I have heard in the tribe of my family that thou, O Lord, tookest Israel from among all people, and our fathers from all their predecessors, for a perpetual inheritance, and thou hast performed whatsoever thou didst promise them.
AddEsth 14:6 And now we have sinned before thee: therefore hast thou given us into the hands of our enemies,
AddEsth 14:7 Because we worshipped their gods: O Lord, thou art righteous.
AddEsth 14:8 Nevertheless it satisfieth them not, that we are in bitter captivity: but they have stricken hands with their idols,
AddEsth 14:9 That they will abolish the thing that thou with thy mouth hast ordained, and destroy thine inheritance, and stop the mouth of them that praise thee, and quench the glory of thy house, and of thine altar,
AddEsth 14:10 And open the mouths of the heathen to set forth the praises of the idols, and to magnify a fleshly king for ever.
AddEsth 14:11 O Lord, give not thy sceptre unto them that be nothing, and let them not laugh at our fall; but turn their device upon themselves, and make him an example, that hath begun this against us.
AddEsth 14:12 Remember, O Lord, make thyself known in time of our affliction, and give me boldness, O King of the nations, and Lord of all power.
AddEsth 14:13 Give me eloquent speech in my mouth before the lion: turn his heart to hate him that fighteth against us, that there may be an end of him, and of all that are likeminded to him:
AddEsth 14:14 But deliver us with thine hand, and help me that am desolate, and which have no other help but thee.
AddEsth 14:15 Thou knowest all things, O Lord; thou knowest that I hate the glory of the unrighteous, and abhor the bed of the uncircumcised, and of all the heathen.
AddEsth 14:16 Thou knowest my necessity: for I abhor the sign of my high estate, which is upon mine head in the days wherein I shew myself, and that I abhor it as a menstruous rag, and that I wear it not when I am private by myself.
AddEsth 14:17 And that thine handmaid hath not eaten at Aman's table, and that I have not greatly esteemed the king's feast, nor drunk the wine of the drink offerings.
AddEsth 14:18 Neither had thine handmaid any joy since the day that I was brought hither to this present, but in thee, O Lord God of Abraham.
AddEsth 14:19 O thou mighty God above all, hear the voice of the forlorn and deliver us out of the hands of the mischievous, and deliver me out of my fear.
AddEsth 15:1 And upon the third day, when she had ended her prayers, she laid away her mourning garments, and put on her glorious apparel.
AddEsth 15:2 And being gloriously adorned, after she had called upon God, who is the beholder and saviour of all things, she took two maids with her:
AddEsth 15:3 And upon the one she leaned, as carrying herself daintily;
AddEsth 15:4 And the other followed, bearing up her train.
AddEsth 15:5 And she was ruddy through the perfection of her beauty, and her countenance was cheerful and very amiable: but her heart was in anguish for fear.
AddEsth 15:6 Then having passed through all the doors, she stood before the king, who sat upon his royal throne, and was clothed with all his robes of majesty, all glittering with gold and precious stones; and he was very dreadful.
AddEsth 15:7 Then lifting up his countenance that shone with majesty, he looked very fiercely upon her: and the queen fell down, and was pale, and fainted, and bowed herself upon the head of the maid that went before her.
AddEsth 15:8 Then God changed the spirit of the king into mildness, who in a fear leaped from his throne, and took her in his arms, till she came to herself again, and comforted her with loving words and said unto her,
AddEsth 15:9 Esther, what is the matter? I am thy brother, be of good cheer:
AddEsth 15:10 Thou shalt not die, though our our commandment be general: come near.
AddEsth 15:11 And so be held up his golden sceptre, and laid it upon her neck,
AddEsth 15:12 And embraced her, and said, Speak unto me.
AddEsth 15:13 Then said she unto him, I saw thee, my lord, as an angel of God, and my heart was troubled for fear of thy majesty.
AddEsth 15:14 For wonderful art thou, lord, and thy countenance is full of grace.
AddEsth 15:15 And as she was speaking, she fell down for faintness.
AddEsth 15:16 Then the king was troubled, and ail his servants comforted her.
AddEsth 16:1 The great king Artexerxes unto the princes and governors of an hundred and seven and twenty provinces from India unto Ethiopia, and unto all our faithful subjects, greeting.
AddEsth 16:2 Many, the more often they are honoured with the great bounty of their gracious princes, the more proud they are waxen,
AddEsth 16:3 And endeavour to hurt not our subjects only, but not being able to bear abundance, do take in hand to practise also against those that do them good:
AddEsth 16:4 And take not only thankfulness away from among men, but also lifted up with the glorious words of lewd persons, that were never good, they think to escape the justice of God, that seeth all things and hateth evil.
AddEsth 16:5 Oftentimes also fair speech of those, that are put in trust to manage their friends' affairs, hath caused many that are in authority to be partakers of innocent blood, and hath enwrapped them in remediless calamities:
AddEsth 16:6 Beguiling with the falsehood and deceit of their lewd disposition the innocency and goodness of princes.
AddEsth 16:7 Now ye may see this, as we have declared, not so much by ancient histories, as ye may, if ye search what hath been wickedly done of late through the pestilent behaviour of them that are unworthily placed in authority.
AddEsth 16:8 And we must take care for the time to come, that our kingdom may be quiet and peaceable for all men,
AddEsth 16:9 Both by changing our purposes, and always judging things that are evident with more equal proceeding.
AddEsth 16:10 For Aman, a Macedonian, the son of Amadatha, being indeed a stranger from the Persian blood, and far distant from our goodness, and as a stranger received of us,
AddEsth 16:11 Had so far forth obtained the favour that we shew toward every nation, as that he was called our father, and was continually honoured of all the next person unto the king.
AddEsth 16:12 But he, not bearing his great dignity, went about to deprive us of our kingdom and life:
AddEsth 16:13 Having by manifold and cunning deceits sought of us the destruction, as well of Mardocheus, who saved our life, and continually procured our good, as also of blameless Esther, partaker of our kingdom, with their whole nation.
AddEsth 16:14 For by these means he thought, finding us destitute of friends to have translated the kingdom of the Persians to the Macedonians.
AddEsth 16:15 But we find that the Jews, whom this wicked wretch hath delivered to utter destruction, are no evildoers, but live by most just laws:
AddEsth 16:16 And that they be children of the most high and most mighty, living God, who hath ordered the kingdom both unto us and to our progenitors in the most excellent manner.
AddEsth 16:17 Wherefore ye shall do well not to put in execution the letters sent unto you by Aman the son of Amadatha.
AddEsth 16:18 For he that was the worker of these things, is hanged at the gates of Susa with all his family: God, who ruleth all things, speedily rendering vengeance to him according to his deserts.
AddEsth 16:19 Therefore ye shall publish the copy of this letter in all places, that the Jews may freely live after their own laws.
AddEsth 16:20 And ye shall aid them, that even the same day, being the thirteenth day of the twelfth month Adar, they may be avenged on them, who in the time of their affliction shall set upon them.
AddEsth 16:21 For Almighty God hath turned to joy unto them the day, wherein the chosen people should have perished.
AddEsth 16:22 Ye shall therefore among your solemn feasts keep it an high day with all feasting:
AddEsth 16:23 That both now and hereafter there may be safety to us and the well affected Persians; but to those which do conspire against us a memorial of destruction.
AddEsth 16:24 Therefore every city and country whatsoever, which shall not do according to these things, shall be destroyed without mercy with fire and sword, and shall be made not only unpassable for men, but also most hateful to wild beasts and fowls for ever.
The First Book of the Maccabees
1 Mac 1:1 And it happened, after that Alexander son of Philip, the Macedonian, who came out of the land of Chettim, had smitten Darius king of the Persians and Medes, that he reigned in his stead, the first over Greece,
1 Mac 1:2 And made many wars, and won many strong holds, and slew the kings of the earth,
1 Mac 1:3 And went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of many nations, insomuch that the earth was quiet before him; whereupon he was exalted and his heart was lifted up.
1 Mac 1:4 And he gathered a mighty strong host and ruled over countries, and nations, and kings, who became tributaries unto him.
1 Mac 1:5 And after these things he fell sick, and perceived that he should die.
1 Mac 1:6 Wherefore he called his servants, such as were honourable, and had been brought up with him from his youth, and parted his kingdom among them, while he was yet alive.
1 Mac 1:7 So Alexander reigned twelves years, and then died.
1 Mac 1:8 And his servants bare rule every one in his place.
1 Mac 1:9 And after his death they all put crowns upon themselves; so did their sons after them many years: and evils were multiplied in the earth.
1 Mac 1:10 And there came out of them a wicked root Antiochus surnamed Epiphanes, son of Antiochus the king, who had been an hostage at Rome, and he reigned in the hundred and thirty and seventh year of the kingdom of the Greeks.
1 Mac 1:11 In those days went there out of Israel wicked men, who persuaded many, saying, Let us go and make a covenant with the heathen that are round about us: for since we departed from them we have had much sorrow.
1 Mac 1:12 So this device pleased them well.
1 Mac 1:13 Then certain of the people were so forward herein, that they went to the king, who gave them licence to do after the ordinances of the heathen:
1 Mac 1:14 Whereupon they built a place of exercise at Jerusalem according to the customs of the heathen:
1 Mac 1:15 And made themselves uncircumcised, and forsook the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathen, and were sold to do mischief.
1 Mac 1:16 Now when the kingdom was established before Antiochus, he thought to reign over Egypt that he might have the dominion of two realms.
1 Mac 1:17 Wherefore he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great navy,
1 Mac 1:18 And made war against Ptolemee king of Egypt: but Ptolemee was afraid of him, and fled; and many were wounded to death.
1 Mac 1:19 Thus they got the strong cities in the land of Egypt and he took the spoils thereof.
1 Mac 1:20 And after that Antiochus had smitten Egypt, he returned again in the hundred forty and third year, and went up against Israel and Jerusalem with a great multitude,
1 Mac 1:21 And entered proudly into the sanctuary, and took away the golden altar, and the candlestick of light, and all the vessels thereof,
1 Mac 1:22 And the table of the shewbread, and the pouring vessels, and the vials, and the censers of gold, and the veil, and the crown, and the golden ornaments that were before the temple, all which he pulled off.
1 Mac 1:23 He took also the silver and the gold, and the precious vessels: also he took the hidden treasures which he found.
1 Mac 1:24 And when he had taken all away, he went into his own land, having made a great massacre, and spoken very proudly.
1 Mac 1:25 Therefore there was a great mourning in Israel, in every place where they were;
1 Mac 1:26 So that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.
1 Mac 1:27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,
1 Mac 1:28 The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
1 Mac 1:29 And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude,
1 Mac 1:30 And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.
1 Mac 1:31 And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.
1 Mac 1:32 But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.
1 Mac 1:33 Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.
1 Mac 1:34 And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.
1 Mac 1:35 They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:
1 Mac 1:36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.
1 Mac 1:37 Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:
1 Mac 1:38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.
1 Mac 1:39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.
1 Mac 1:40 As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.
1 Mac 1:41 Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
1 Mac 1:42 And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.
1 Mac 1:43 Yea, many also of the Israelites consented to his religion, and sacrificed unto idols, and profaned the sabbath.
1 Mac 1:44 For the king had sent letters by messengers unto Jerusalem and the cities of Juda that they should follow the strange laws of the land,
1 Mac 1:45 And forbid burnt offerings, and sacrifice, and drink offerings, in the temple; and that they should profane the sabbaths and festival days:
1 Mac 1:46 And pollute the sanctuary and holy people:
1 Mac 1:47 Set up altars, and groves, and chapels of idols, and sacrifice swine's flesh, and unclean beasts:
1 Mac 1:48 That they should also leave their children uncircumcised, and make their souls abominable with all manner of uncleanness and profanation:
1 Mac 1:49 To the end they might forget the law, and change all the ordinances.
1 Mac 1:50 And whosoever would not do according to the commandment of the king, he said, he should die.
1 Mac 1:51 In the selfsame manner wrote he to his whole kingdom, and appointed overseers over all the people, commanding the cities of Juda to sacrifice, city by city.
1 Mac 1:52 Then many of the people were gathered unto them, to wit every one that forsook the law; and so they committed evils in the land;
1 Mac 1:53 And drove the Israelites into secret places, even wheresoever they could flee for succour.
1 Mac 1:54 Now the fifteenth day of the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and fifth year, they set up the abomination of desolation upon the altar, and builded idol altars throughout the cities of Juda on every side;
1 Mac 1:55 And burnt incense at the doors of their houses, and in the streets.
1 Mac 1:56 And when they had rent in pieces the books of the law which they found, they burnt them with fire.
1 Mac 1:57 And whosoever was found with any the book of the testament, or if any committed to the law, the king's commandment was, that they should put him to death.
1 Mac 1:58 Thus did they by their authority unto the Israelites every month, to as many as were found in the cities.
1 Mac 1:59 Now the five and twentieth day of the month they did sacrifice upon the idol altar, which was upon the altar of God.
1 Mac 1:60 At which time according to the commandment they put to death certain women, that had caused their children to be circumcised.
1 Mac 1:61 And they hanged the infants about their necks, and rifled their houses, and slew them that had circumcised them.
1 Mac 1:62 Howbeit many in Israel were fully resolved and confirmed in themselves not to eat any unclean thing.
1 Mac 1:63 Wherefore the rather to die, that they might not be defiled with meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: so then they died.
1 Mac 1:64 And there was very great wrath upon Israel.
1 Mac 2:1 In those days arose Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and dwelt in Modin.
1 Mac 2:2 And he had five sons, Joannan, called Caddis:
1 Mac 2:3 Simon; called Thassi:
1 Mac 2:4 Judas, who was called Maccabeus:
1 Mac 2:5 Eleazar, called Avaran: and Jonathan, whose surname was Apphus.
1 Mac 2:6 And when he saw the blasphemies that were committed in Juda and Jerusalem,
1 Mac 2:7 He said, Woe is me! wherefore was I born to see this misery of my people, and of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it was delivered into the hand of the enemy, and the sanctuary into the hand of strangers?
1 Mac 2:8 Her temple is become as a man without glory.
1 Mac 2:9 Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
1 Mac 2:10 What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?
1 Mac 2:11 All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.
1 Mac 2:12 And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.
1 Mac 2:13 To what end therefore shall we live any longer?
1 Mac 2:14 Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.
1 Mac 2:15 In the mean while the king's officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.
1 Mac 2:16 And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and his sons came together.
1 Mac 2:17 Then answered the king's officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:
1 Mac 2:18 Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king's commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king's friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.
1 Mac 2:19 Then Mattathias answered and spake with a loud voice, Though all the nations that are under the king's dominion obey him, and fall away every one from the religion of their fathers, and give consent to his commandments:
1 Mac 2:20 Yet will I and my sons and my brethren walk in the covenant of our fathers.
1 Mac 2:21 God forbid that we should forsake the law and the ordinances.
1 Mac 2:22 We will not hearken to the king's words, to go from our religion, either on the right hand, or the left.
1 Mac 2:23 Now when he had left speaking these words, there came one of the Jews in the sight of all to sacrifice on the altar which was at Modin, according to the king's commandment.
1 Mac 2:24 Which thing when Mattathias saw, he was inflamed with zeal, and his reins trembled, neither could he forbear to shew his anger according to judgment: wherefore he ran, and slew him upon the altar.
1 Mac 2:25 Also the king's commissioner, who compelled men to sacrifice, he killed at that time, and the altar he pulled down.
1 Mac 2:26 Thus dealt he zealously for the law of God like as Phinees did unto Zambri the son of Salom.
1 Mac 2:27 And Mattathias cried throughout the city with a loud voice, saying, Whosoever is zealous of the law, and maintaineth the covenant, let him follow me.
1 Mac 2:28 So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that ever they had in the city.
1 Mac 2:29 Then many that sought after justice and judgment went down into the wilderness, to dwell there:
1 Mac 2:30 Both they, and their children, and their wives; and their cattle; because afflictions increased sore upon them.
1 Mac 2:31 Now when it was told the king's servants, and the host that was at Jerusalem, in the city of David, that certain men, who had broken the king's commandment, were gone down into the secret places in the wilderness,
1 Mac 2:32 They pursued after them a great number, and having overtaken them, they camped against them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.
1 Mac 2:33 And they said unto them, Let that which ye have done hitherto suffice; come forth, and do according to the commandment of the king, and ye shall live.
1 Mac 2:34 But they said, We will not come forth, neither will we do the king's commandment, to profane the sabbath day.
1 Mac 2:35 So then they gave them the battle with all speed.
1 Mac 2:36 Howbeit they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped the places where they lay hid;
1 Mac 2:37 But said, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth will testify for us, that ye put us to death wrongfully.
1 Mac 2:38 So they rose up against them in battle on the sabbath, and they slew them, with their wives and children and their cattle, to the number of a thousand people.
1 Mac 2:39 Now when Mattathias and his friends understood hereof, they mourned for them right sore.
1 Mac 2:40 And one of them said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not for our lives and laws against the heathen, they will now quickly root us out of the earth.
1 Mac 2:41 At that time therefore they decreed, saying, Whosoever shall come to make battle with us on the sabbath day, we will fight against him; neither will we die all, as our brethren that were murdered im the secret places.
1 Mac 2:42 Then came there unto him a company of Assideans who were mighty men of Israel, even all such as were voluntarily devoted unto the law.
1 Mac 2:43 Also all they that fled for persecution joined themselves unto them, and were a stay unto them.
1 Mac 2:44 So they joined their forces, and smote sinful men in their anger, and wicked men in their wrath: but the rest fled to the heathen for succour.
1 Mac 2:45 Then Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars:
1 Mac 2:46 And what children soever they found within the coast of Israel uncircumcised, those they circumcised valiantly.
1 Mac 2:47 They pursued also after the proud men, and the work prospered in their hand.
1 Mac 2:48 So they recovered the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.
1 Mac 2:49 Now when the time drew near that Mattathias should die, he said unto his sons, Now hath pride and rebuke gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation:
1 Mac 2:50 Now therefore, my sons, be ye zealous for the law, and give your lives for the covenant of your fathers.
1 Mac 2:51 Call to remembrance what acts our fathers did in their time; so shall ye receive great honour and an everlasting name.
1 Mac 2:52 Was not Abraham found faithful in temptation, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness?
1 Mac 2:53 Joseph in the time of his distress kept the commandment and was made lord of Egypt.
1 Mac 2:54 Phinees our father in being zealous and fervent obtained the covenant of an everlasting priesthood.
1 Mac 2:55 Jesus for fulfilling the word was made a judge in Israel.
1 Mac 2:56 Caleb for bearing witness before the congregation received the heritage of the land.
1 Mac 2:57 David for being merciful possessed the throne of an everlasting kingdom.
1 Mac 2:58 Elias for being zealous and fervent for the law was taken up into heaven.
1 Mac 2:59 Ananias, Azarias, and Misael, by believing were saved out of the flame.
1 Mac 2:60 Daniel for his innocency was delivered from the mouth of lions.
1 Mac 2:61 And thus consider ye throughout all ages, that none that put their trust in him shall be overcome.
1 Mac 2:62 Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.
1 Mac 2:63 To day he shall be lifted up and to morrow he shall not be found, because he is returned into his dust, and his thought is come to nothing.
1 Mac 2:64 Wherefore, ye my sons, be valiant and shew yourselves men in the behalf of the law; for by it shall ye obtain glory.
1 Mac 2:65 And behold, I know that your brother Simon is a man of counsel, give ear unto him alway: he shall be a father unto you.
1 Mac 2:66 As for Judas Maccabeus, he hath been mighty and strong, even from his youth up: let him be your captain, and fight the battle of the people.
1 Mac 2:67 Take also unto you all those that observe the law, and avenge ye the wrong of your people.
1 Mac 2:68 Recompense fully the heathen, and take heed to the commandments of the law.
1 Mac 2:69 So he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.
1 Mac 2:70 And he died in the hundred forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.
1 Mac 3:1 Then his son Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his stead.
1 Mac 3:2 And all his brethren helped him, and so did all they that held with his father, and they fought with cheerfulness the battle of Israel.
1 Mac 3:3 So he gat his people great honour, and put on a breastplate as a giant, and girt his warlike harness about him, and he made battles, protecting the host with his sword.
1 Mac 3:4 In his acts he was like a lion, and like a lion's whelp roaring for his prey.
1 Mac 3:5 For He pursued the wicked, and sought them out, and burnt up those that vexed his people.
1 Mac 3:6 Wherefore the wicked shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of iniquity were troubled, because salvation prospered in his hand.
1 Mac 3:7 He grieved also many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed for ever.
1 Mac 3:8 Moreover he went through the cities of Juda, destroying the ungodly out of them, and turning away wrath from Israel:
1 Mac 3:9 So that he was renowned unto the utmost part of the earth, and he received unto him such as were ready to perish.
1 Mac 3:10 Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.
1 Mac 3:11 Which thing when Judas perceived, he went forth to meet him, and so he smote him, and slew him: many also fell down slain, but the rest fled.
1 Mac 3:12 Wherefore Judas took their spoils, and Apollonius' sword also, and therewith he fought all his life long.
1 Mac 3:13 Now when Seron, a prince of the army of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered unto him a multitude and company of the faithful to go out with him to war;
1 Mac 3:14 He said, I will get me a name and honour in the kingdom; for I will go fight with Judas and them that are with him, who despise the king's commandment.
1 Mac 3:15 So he made him ready to go up, and there went with him a mighty host of the ungodly to help him, and to be avenged of the children of Israel.
1 Mac 3:16 And when he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, Judas went forth to meet him with a small company:
1 Mac 3:17 Who, when they saw the host coming to meet them, said unto Judas, How shall we be able, being so few, to fight against so great a multitude and so strong, seeing we are ready to faint with fasting all this day?
1 Mac 3:18 Unto whom Judas answered, It is no hard matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with the God of heaven it is all one, to deliver with a great multitude, or a small company:
1 Mac 3:19 For the victory of battle standeth not in the multitude of an host; but strength cometh from heaven.
1 Mac 3:20 They come against us in much pride and iniquity to destroy us, and our wives and children, and to spoil us:
1 Mac 3:21 But we fight for our lives and our laws.
1 Mac 3:22 Wherefore the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face: and as for you, be ye not afraid of them.
1 Mac 3:23 Now as soon as he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and so Seron and his host was overthrown before him.
1 Mac 3:24 And they pursued them from the going down of Bethhoron unto the plain, where were slain about eight hundred men of them; and the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
1 Mac 3:25 Then began the fear of Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:
1 Mac 3:26 Insomuch as his fame came unto the king, and all nations talked of the battles of Judas.
1 Mac 3:27 Now when king Antiochus heard these things, he was full of indignation: wherefore he sent and gathered together all the forces of his realm, even a very strong army.
1 Mac 3:28 He opened also his treasure, and gave his soldiers pay for a year, commanding them to be ready whensoever he should need them.
1 Mac 3:29 Nevertheless, when he saw that the money of his treasures failed and that the tributes in the country were small, because of the dissension and plague, which he had brought upon the land in taking away the laws which had been of old time;
1 Mac 3:30 He feared that he should not be able to bear the charges any longer, nor to have such gifts to give so liberally as he did before: for he had abounded above the kings that were before him.
1 Mac 3:31 Wherefore, being greatly perplexed in his mind, he determined to go into Persia, there to take the tributes of the countries, and to gather much money.
1 Mac 3:32 So he left Lysias, a nobleman, and one of the blood royal, to oversee the affairs of the king from the river Euphrates unto the borders of Egypt:
1 Mac 3:33 And to bring up his son Antiochus, until he came again.
1 Mac 3:34 Moreover he delivered unto him the half of his forces, and the elephants, and gave him charge of all things that he would have done, as also concerning them that dwelt in Juda and Jerusalem:
1 Mac 3:35 To wit, that he should send an army against them, to destroy and root out the strength of Israel, and the remnant of Jerusalem, and to take away their memorial from that place;
1 Mac 3:36 And that he should place strangers in all their quarters, and divide their land by lot.
1 Mac 3:37 So the king took the half of the forces that remained, and departed from Antioch, his royal city, the hundred forty and seventh year; and having passed the river Euphrates, he went through the high countries.
1 Mac 3:38 Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and Gorgias, mighty men of the king's friends:
1 Mac 3:39 And with them he sent forty thousand footmen, and seven thousand horsemen, to go into the land of Juda, and to destroy it, as the king commanded.
1 Mac 3:40 So they went forth with all their power, and came and pitched by Emmaus in the plain country.
1 Mac 3:41 And the merchants of the country, hearing the fame of them, took silver and gold very much, with servants, and came into the camp to buy the children of Israel for slaves: a power also of Syria and of the land of the Philistines joined themselves unto them.
1 Mac 3:42 Now when Judas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, and that the forces did encamp themselves in their borders: for they knew how the king had given commandment to destroy the people, and utterly abolish them;
1 Mac 3:43 They said one to another, Let us restore the decayed fortune of our people, and let us fight for our people and the sanctuary.
1 Mac 3:44 Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.
1 Mac 3:45 Now Jerusalem lay void as a wilderness, there was none of her children that went in or out: the sanctuary also was trodden down, and aliens kept the strong hold; the heathen had their habitation in that place; and joy was taken from Jacob, and the pipe with the harp ceased.
1 Mac 3:46 Wherefore the Israelites assembled themselves together, and came to Maspha, over against Jerusalem; for in Maspha was the place where they prayed aforetime in Israel.
1 Mac 3:47 Then they fasted that day, and put on sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,
1 Mac 3:48 And laid open the book of the law, wherein the heathen had sought to paint the likeness of their images.
1 Mac 3:49 They brought also the priests' garments, and the firstfruits, and the tithes: and the Nazarites they stirred up, who had accomplished their days.
1 Mac 3:50 Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these, and whither shall we carry them away?
1 Mac 3:51 For thy sanctuary is trodden down and profaned, and thy priests are in heaviness, and brought low.
1 Mac 3:52 And lo, the heathen are assembled together against us to destroy us: what things they imagine against us, thou knowest.
1 Mac 3:53 How shall we be able to stand against them, except thou, O God, be our help?
1 Mac 3:54 Then sounded they with trumpets, and cried with a loud voice.
1 Mac 3:55 And after this Judas ordained captains over the people, even captains over thousands, and over hundreds, and over fifties, and over tens.
1 Mac 3:56 But as for such as were building houses, or had betrothed wives, or were planting vineyards, or were fearful, those he commanded that they should return, every man to his own house, according to the law.
1 Mac 3:57 So the camp removed, and pitched upon the south side of Emmaus.
1 Mac 3:58 And Judas said, arm yourselves, and be valiant men, and see that ye be in readiness against the morning, that ye may fight with these nations, that are assembled together against us to destroy us and our sanctuary:
1 Mac 3:59 For it is better for us to die in battle, than to behold the calamities of our people and our sanctuary.
1 Mac 3:60 Nevertheless, as the will of God is in heaven, so let him do.
1 Mac 4:1 Then took Gorgias five thousand footmen, and a thousand of the best horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
1 Mac 4:2 To the end he might rush in upon the camp of the Jews, and smite them suddenly. And the men of the fortress were his guides.
1 Mac 4:3 Now when Judas heard thereof he himself removed, and the valiant men with him, that he might smite the king's army which was at Emmaus,
1 Mac 4:4 While as yet the forces were dispersed from the camp.
1 Mac 4:5 In the mean season came Gorgias by night into the camp of Judas: and when he found no man there, he sought them in the mountains: for said he, These fellows flee from us
1 Mac 4:6 But as soon as it was day, Judas shewed himself in the plain with three thousand men, who nevertheless had neither armour nor swords to their minds.
1 Mac 4:7 And they saw the camp of the heathen, that it was strong and well harnessed, and compassed round about with horsemen; and these were expert of war.
1 Mac 4:8 Then said Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their assault.
1 Mac 4:9 Remember how our fathers were delivered in the Red sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.
1 Mac 4:10 Now therefore let us cry unto heaven, if peradventure the Lord will have mercy upon us, and remember the covenant of our fathers, and destroy this host before our face this day:
1 Mac 4:11 That so all the heathen may know that there is one who delivereth and saveth Israel.
1 Mac 4:12 Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.
1 Mac 4:13 Wherefore they went out of the camp to battle; but they that were with Judas sounded their trumpets.
1 Mac 4:14 So they joined battle, and the heathen being discomfited fled into the plain.
1 Mac 4:15 Howbeit all the hindmost of them were slain with the sword: for they pursued them unto Gazera, and unto the plains of Idumea, and Azotus, and Jamnia, so that there were slain of them upon a three thousand men.
1 Mac 4:16 This done, Judas returned again with his host from pursuing them,
1 Mac 4:17 And said to the people, Be not greedy of the spoil inasmuch as there is a battle before us,
1 Mac 4:18 And Gorgias and his host are here by us in the mountain: but stand ye now against our enemies, and overcome them, and after this ye may boldly take the spoils.
1 Mac 4:19 As Judas was yet speaking these words, there appeared a part of them looking out of the mountain:
1 Mac 4:20 Who when they perceived that the Jews had put their host to flight and were burning the tents; for the smoke that was seen declared what was done:
1 Mac 4:21 When therefore they perceived these things, they were sore afraid, and seeing also the host of Judas in the plain ready to fight,
1 Mac 4:22 They fled every one into the land of strangers.
1 Mac 4:23 Then Judas returned to spoil the tents, where they got much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great riches.
1 Mac 4:24 After this they went home, and sung a song of thanksgiving, and praised the Lord in heaven: because it is good, because his mercy endureth forever.
1 Mac 4:25 Thus Israel had a great deliverance that day.
1 Mac 4:26 Now all the strangers that had escaped came and told Lysias what had happened:
1 Mac 4:27 Who, when he heard thereof, was confounded and discouraged, because neither such things as he would were done unto Israel, nor such things as the king commanded him were come to pass.
1 Mac 4:28 The next year therefore following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand choice men of foot, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.
1 Mac 4:29 So they came into Idumea, and pitched their tents at Bethsura, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
1 Mac 4:30 And when he saw that mighty army, he prayed and said, Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst quell the violence of the mighty man by the hand of thy servant David, and gavest the host of strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and his armourbearer;
1 Mac 4:31 Shut up this army in the hand of thy people Israel, and let them be confounded in their power and horsemen:
1 Mac 4:32 Make them to be of no courage, and cause the boldness of their strength to fall away, and let them quake at their destruction:
1 Mac 4:33 Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee, and let all those that know thy name praise thee with thanksgiving.
1 Mac 4:34 So they joined battle; and there were slain of the host of Lysias about five thousand men, even before them were they slain.
1 Mac 4:35 Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
1 Mac 4:36 Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.
1 Mac 4:37 Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
1 Mac 4:38 And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;
1 Mac 4:39 They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
1 Mac 4:40 And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
1 Mac 4:41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
1 Mac 4:42 So he chose priests of blameless conversation, such as had pleasure in the law:
1 Mac 4:43 Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.
1 Mac 4:44 And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;
1 Mac 4:45 They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
1 Mac 4:46 And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.
1 Mac 4:47 Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
1 Mac 4:48 And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within the temple, and hallowed the courts.
1 Mac 4:49 They made also new holy vessels, and into the temple they brought the candlestick, and the altar of burnt offerings, and of incense, and the table.
1 Mac 4:50 And upon the altar they burned incense, and the lamps that were upon the candlestick they lighted, that they might give light in the temple.
1 Mac 4:51 Furthermore they set the loaves upon the table, and spread out the veils, and finished all the works which they had begun to make.
1 Mac 4:52 Now on the five and twentieth day of the ninth month, which is called the month Casleu, in the hundred forty and eighth year, they rose up betimes in the morning,
1 Mac 4:53 And offered sacrifice according to the law upon the new altar of burnt offerings, which they had made.
1 Mac 4:54 Look, at what time and what day the heathen had profaned it, even in that was it dedicated with songs, and citherns, and harps, and cymbals.
1 Mac 4:55 Then all the people fell upon their faces, worshipping and praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.
1 Mac 4:56 And so they kept the dedication of the altar eight days and offered burnt offerings with gladness, and sacrificed the sacrifice of deliverance and praise.
1 Mac 4:57 They decked also the forefront of the temple with crowns of gold, and with shields; and the gates and the chambers they renewed, and hanged doors upon them.
1 Mac 4:58 Thus was there very great gladness among the people, for that the reproach of the heathen was put away.
1 Mac 4:59 Moreover Judas and his brethren with the whole congregation of Israel ordained, that the days of the dedication of the altar should be kept in their season from year to year by the space of eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Casleu, with mirth and gladness.
1 Mac 4:60 At that time also they builded up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should come and tread it down as they had done before.
1 Mac 4:61 And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea.
1 Mac 5:1 Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
1 Mac 5:2 Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
1 Mac 5:3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
1 Mac 5:4 Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.
1 Mac 5:5 He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all that were therein.
1 Mac 5:6 Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain.
1 Mac 5:7 So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.
1 Mac 5:8 And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.
1 Mac 5:9 Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.
1 Mac 5:10 And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:
1 Mac 5:11 And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.
1 Mac 5:12 Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain:
1 Mac 5:13 Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed there about a thousand men.
1 Mac 5:14 While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,
1 Mac 5:15 And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to consume us.
1 Mac 5:16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them.
1 Mac 5:17 Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.
1 Mac 5:18 So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.
1 Mac 5:19 Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.
1 Mac 5:20 Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.
1 Mac 5:21 Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.
1 Mac 5:22 And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he took.
1 Mac 5:23 And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.
1 Mac 5:24 Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan, and travelled three days' journey in the wilderness,
1 Mac 5:25 Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to their brethren in the land of Galaad:
1 Mac 5:26 And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:
1 Mac 5:27 And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the country of Galaad, and that against to morrow they had appointed to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.
1 Mac 5:28 Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire,
1 Mac 5:29 From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.
1 Mac 5:30 And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.
1 Mac 5:31 When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a great sound,
1 Mac 5:32 He said unto his host, Fight this day for your brethren.
1 Mac 5:33 So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets, and cried with prayer.
1 Mac 5:34 Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus, fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand men.
1 Mac 5:35 This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and received the spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire.
1 Mac 5:36 From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the other cities of the country of Galaad.
1 Mac 5:37 After these things gathered Timotheus another host and encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.
1 Mac 5:38 So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word, saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled unto them, even a very great host.
1 Mac 5:39 He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight against thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them.
1 Mac 5:40 Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily prevail against us:
1 Mac 5:41 But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go over unto him, and prevail against him.
1 Mac 5:42 Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but let all come to the battle.
1 Mac 5:43 So he went first over unto them, and all the people after him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at Carnaim.
1 Mac 5:44 But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand any longer before Judas.
1 Mac 5:45 Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea.
1 Mac 5:46 Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs pass through the midst of it.
1 Mac 5:47 Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
1 Mac 5:48 Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying, Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot: howbeit they would not open unto him.
1 Mac 5:49 Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the place where he was.
1 Mac 5:50 So the soldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered into his hands:
1 Mac 5:51 Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.
1 Mac 5:52 After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.
1 Mac 5:53 And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land of Judea.
1 Mac 5:54 So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.
1 Mac 5:55 Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
1 Mac 5:56 Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done.
1 Mac 5:57 Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.
1 Mac 5:58 So when they had given charge unto the garrison that was with them, they went toward Jamnia.
1 Mac 5:59 Then came Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight against them.
1 Mac 5:60 And so it was, that Joseph and Azaras were put to flight, and pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.
1 Mac 5:61 Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his brethren, but thought to do some valiant act.
1 Mac 5:62 Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose hand deliverance was given unto Israel.
1 Mac 5:63 Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever their name was heard of;
1 Mac 5:64 Insomuch as the the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.
1 Mac 5:65 Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.
1 Mac 5:66 From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
1 Mac 5:67 At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.
1 Mac 5:68 So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the land of Judea.
1 Mac 6:1 About that time king Antiochus travelling through the high countries heard say, that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold;
1 Mac 6:2 And that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Grecians, had left there.
1 Mac 6:3 Wherefore he came and sought to take the city, and to spoil it; but he was not able, because they of the city, having had warning thereof,
1 Mac 6:4 Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
1 Mac 6:5 Moreover there came one who brought him tidings into Persia, that the armies, which went against the land of Judea, were put to flight:
1 Mac 6:6 And that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power was driven away of the Jews; and that they were made strong by the armour, and power, and store of spoils, which they had gotten of the armies, whom they had destroyed:
1 Mac 6:7 Also that they had pulled down the abomination, which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Bethsura.
1 Mac 6:8 Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sore moved: whereupon he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.
1 Mac 6:9 And there he continued many days: for his grief was ever more and more, and he made account that he should die.
1 Mac 6:10 Wherefore he called for all his friends, and said unto them, The sleep is gone from mine eyes, and my heart faileth for very care.
1 Mac 6:11 And I thought with myself, Into what tribulation am I come, and how great a flood of misery is it, wherein now I am! for I was bountiful and beloved in my power.
1 Mac 6:12 But now I remember the evils that I did at Jerusalem, and that I took all the vessels of gold and silver that were therein, and sent to destroy the inhabitants of Judea without a cause.
1 Mac 6:13 I perceive therefore that for this cause these troubles are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.
1 Mac 6:14 Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made ruler over all his realm,
1 Mac 6:15 And gave him the crown, and his robe, and his signet, to the end he should bring up his son Antiochus, and nourish him up for the kingdom.
1 Mac 6:16 So king Antiochus died there in the hundred forty and ninth year.
1 Mac 6:17 Now when Lysias knew that the king was dead, he set up Antiochus his son, whom he had brought up being young, to reign in his stead, and his name he called Eupator.
1 Mac 6:18 About this time they that were in the tower shut up the Israelites round about the sanctuary, and sought always their hurt, and the strengthening of the heathen.
1 Mac 6:19 Wherefore Judas, purposing to destroy them, called all the people together to besiege them.
1 Mac 6:20 So they came together, and besieged them in the hundred and fiftieth year, and he made mounts for shot against them, and other engines.
1 Mac 6:21 Howbeit certain of them that were besieged got forth, unto whom some ungodly men of Israel joined themselves:
1 Mac 6:22 And they went unto the king, and said, How long will it be ere thou execute judgment, and avenge our brethren?
1 Mac 6:23 We have been willing to serve thy father, and to do as he would have us, and to obey his commandments;
1 Mac 6:24 For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on they slew, and spoiled our inheritance.
1 Mac 6:25 Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only, but also against their borders.
1 Mac 6:26 And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they fortified.
1 Mac 6:27 Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.
1 Mac 6:28 Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and those that had charge of the horse.
1 Mac 6:29 There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
1 Mac 6:30 So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants exercised in battle.
1 Mac 6:31 These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura, which they assaulted many days, making engines of war; but they of Bethsura came out, and burned them with fire, and fought valiantly.
1 Mac 6:32 Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Bathzacharias, over against the king's camp.
1 Mac 6:33 Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battle, and sounded the trumpets.
1 Mac 6:34 And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.
1 Mac 6:35 Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads; and beside this, for every beast were ordained five hundred horsemen of the best.
1 Mac 6:36 These were ready at every occasion: wheresoever the beast was, and whithersoever the beast went, they went also, neither departed they from him.
1 Mac 6:37 And upon the beasts were there strong towers of wood, which covered every one of them, and were girt fast unto them with devices: there were also upon every one two and thirty strong men, that fought upon them, beside the Indian that ruled him.
1 Mac 6:38 As for the remnant of the horsemen, they set them on this side and that side at the two parts of the host giving them signs what to do, and being harnessed all over amidst the ranks.
1 Mac 6:39 Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold and brass, the mountains glistered therewith, and shined like lamps of fire.
1 Mac 6:40 So part of the king's army being spread upon the high mountains, and part on the valleys below, they marched on safely and in order.
1 Mac 6:41 Wherefore all that heard the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the harness, were moved: for the army was very great and mighty.
1 Mac 6:42 Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king's army six hundred men.
1 Mac 6:43 Eleazar also, surnamed Savaran, perceiving that one of the beasts, armed with royal harness, was higher than all the rest, and supposing that the king was upon him,
1 Mac 6:44 Put himself in jeopardy, to the end he might deliver his people, and get him a perpetual name:
1 Mac 6:45 Wherefore he ran upon him courageously through the midst of the battle, slaying on the right hand and on the left, so that they were divided from him on both sides.
1 Mac 6:46 Which done, he crept under the elephant, and thrust him under, and slew him: whereupon the elephant fell down upon him, and there he died.
1 Mac 6:47 Howbeit the rest of the Jews seeing the strength of the king, and the violence of his forces, turned away from them.
1 Mac 6:48 Then the king's army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against Judea, and against mount Sion.
1 Mac 6:49 But with them that were in Bethsura he made peace: for they came out of the city, because they had no victuals there to endure the siege, it being a year of rest to the land.
1 Mac 6:50 So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.
1 Mac 6:51 As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.
1 Mac 6:52 Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.
1 Mac 6:53 Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the seventh year, and they in Judea that were delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store;)
1 Mac 6:54 There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
1 Mac 6:55 At that time Lysias heard say, that Philip, whom Antiochus the king, whiles he lived, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus, that he might be king,
1 Mac 6:56 Was returned out of Persia and Media, and the king's host also that went with him, and that he sought to take unto him the ruling of the affairs.
1 Mac 6:57 Wherefore he went in all haste, and said to the king and the captains of the host and the company, We decay daily, and our victuals are but small, and the place we lay siege unto is strong, and the affairs of the kingdom lie upon us:
1 Mac 6:58 Now therefore let us be friends with these men, and make peace with them, and with all their nation;
1 Mac 6:59 And covenant with them, that they shall live after their laws, as they did before: for they are therefore displeased, and have done all these things, because we abolished their laws.
1 Mac 6:60 So the king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.
1 Mac 6:61 Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them: whereupon they went out of the strong hold.
1 Mac 6:62 Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.
1 Mac 6:63 Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto Antiochia, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he fought against him, and took the city by force.
1 Mac 7:1 In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.
1 Mac 7:2 And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him.
1 Mac 7:3 Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces.
1 Mac 7:4 So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom,
1 Mac 7:5 There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel, having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their captain:
1 Mac 7:6 And they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own land.
1 Mac 7:7 Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king's land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.
1 Mac 7:8 Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who ruled beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king,
1 Mac 7:9 And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of Israel.
1 Mac 7:10 So they departed, and came with a great power into the land of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully.
1 Mac 7:11 But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great power.
1 Mac 7:12 Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to require justice.
1 Mac 7:13 Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them:
1 Mac 7:14 For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with this army, and he will do us no wrong.
1 Mac 7:15 So he spake unto them, peaceably, and sware unto them, saying, we will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends.
1 Mac 7:16 Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day, according to the words which he wrote,
1 Mac 7:17 The flesh of thy saints have they cast out, and their blood have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
1 Mac 7:18 Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.
1 Mac 7:19 After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.
1 Mac 7:20 Then committed he the country to Alcimus, and left with him a power to aid him: so Bacchides went to the king.
1 Mac 7:21 But Alcimus contended for the high priesthood.
1 Mac 7:22 And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people, who, after they had gotten the land of Juda into their power, did much hurt in Israel.
1 Mac 7:23 Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,
1 Mac 7:24 He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go forth into the country.
1 Mac 7:25 On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of them that he could.
1 Mac 7:26 Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.
1 Mac 7:27 So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force; and sent unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with friendly words, saying,
1 Mac 7:28 Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.
1 Mac 7:29 He came therefore to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence.
1 Mac 7:30 Which thing after it was known to Judas, to wit, that he came unto him with deceit, he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.
1 Mac 7:31 Nicanor also, when he saw that his counsel was discovered, went out to fight against Judas beside Capharsalama:
1 Mac 7:32 Where there were slain of Nicanor's side about five thousand men, and the rest fled into the city of David.
1 Mac 7:33 After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion, and there came out of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the burnt sacrifice that was offered for the king.
1 Mac 7:34 But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spake proudly,
1 Mac 7:35 And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.
1 Mac 7:36 Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
1 Mac 7:37 Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:
1 Mac 7:38 Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
1 Mac 7:39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.
1 Mac 7:40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,
1 Mac 7:41 O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them. |
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