9 Now the king, infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had been done in his father’s time. (WEB) 10 But when Judas heard of these things, he commanded the multitude to call upon the Lord day and night, if ever at any other time, so now to help those who were at the point of being deprived of the law, their country, and the holy temple, (WEB) 11 and not to allow the people who had just begun to be revived to fall into the hands of those profane heathen. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 13:9–11
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2 Maccabees 12:7–9
7 But when the town gates were closed, he withdrew, intending to come again to root out the whole community of the men of Joppa. (WEB) 8 But learning that the men of Jamnia intended to do the same thing to the Jews who lived among them, (WEB) 9 he attacked the Jamnites at night,… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 3:41–43
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2 Maccabees 15:7–9
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1 Maccabees 6:18–20
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1 Maccabees 5:9–11
9 The Gentiles who were in Gilead gathered themselves together against the Israelites who were on their borders, to destroy them. They fled to the stronghold of Dathema, (WEB) 10 and sent letters to Judas and his kindred, saying, “The Gentiles who are around us are gathe… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 12:52–53
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1 Maccabees 8:17–19
17 So Judas chose Eupolemus the son of John, the son of Accos, and Jason the son of Eleazar, and sent them to Rome, to establish friendship and alliance with them, (WEB) 18 and that they should free the yoke from themselves; for they saw that the kingdom of the Greeks kep… (WEB)
1 Esdras 1:51–53
51 But they mocked his messengers. In the day when the Lord spoke, they scoffed at his prophets (WEB) 52 until he, being angry with his people for their great ungodliness, commanded to bring up the kings of the Chaldeans against them. (WEB) 53 They killed their young men with the s… (WEB)
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