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Fear not then the words of a sinful man: for his glory shall be dung and worms.
Then his son
Judas, called Maccabeus, rose up in his
stead.
Then Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host out of Samaria, to fight against Israel.
Then began the fear of
Judas and his brethren, and an exceeding great
dread, to fall upon the nations round about them:
Then Lysias chose Ptolemee the son of Dorymenes, Nicanor, and
Gorgias, mighty men of the king’s friends:
Then was the congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray, and ask mercy and
compassion.
Then they fasted that day, and put on
sackcloth, and cast ashes upon their heads, and rent their clothes,
Then cried they with a loud voice toward heaven, saying, What shall we do with these, and
whither shall we carry them away?
Then took
Gorgias five thousand
footmen, and a thousand of the best
horsemen, and removed out of the camp by night;
Then said
Judas to the men that were with him, Fear ye not their multitude, neither be ye afraid of their
assault.
Then the strangers lifted up their eyes, and saw them coming over against them.
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.
Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had
cleansed the sanctuary.
Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
Then all the people fell upon their faces,
worshipping and praising the God of heaven, who had given them good success.
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.
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.
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.
Then went Simon into
Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the heathen were
discomfited by him.
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.
From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the other cities of the country of Galaad.
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:
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.
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.
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates with stones.
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.
Then came
Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight against them.
From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
Rose up against him in battle: so he fled, and departed
thence with great
heaviness, and returned to Babylon.
Then called he for Philip, one of his friends, who he made ruler over all his realm,
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.
Then Judas and his host drew near, and entered into battle, and there were slain of the king’s army six hundred men.
Then the king’s army went up to Jerusalem to meet them, and the king pitched his tents against
Judea, and against mount
Sion.
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.
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,
Then did there
assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of
scribes, to require justice.
Then committed he the country to Alcimus, and left with him a power to aid him: so Bacchides went to the king.
Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly
hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.
Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple,
weeping, and saying,
Then they pursued after them a day’s journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an
alarm after them with their
trumpets.
Then Judas said, God
forbid that I should do this thing, and
flee away from them: if our time be come, let us die
manfully for our brethren, and let us not
stain our honour.
Then Bacchides chose the wicked men, and made them lords of the country.
Then Jonathan, and Simon his brother, and all that were with him, perceiving that, fled into the wilderness of Thecoe, and pitched their tents by the water of the
pool Asphar.
Then Jonathan and they that were with him rose up against them from the place where they lay in
ambush, and made a slaughter of them in such sort, as many fell down dead, and the
remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.
Then Jonathan said to his company, Let us go up now and fight for our lives, for it standeth not with us to day, as in time past:
Then Jonathan and they that were with him
leapt into Jordan, and
swam over unto the other bank:
howbeit the other passed not over Jordan unto them.
Then all the ungodly men held a council, saying, Behold,
Jonathan and his company are at ease, and dwell without care: now therefore we will bring Bacchides
hither, who shall take them all in one night.
Then removed he, and came with a great host, and sent letters
privily to his adherents in
Judea, that they should take
Jonathan and those that were with him:
howbeit they could not, because their counsel was known unto them.
Then went he and laid siege against Bethbasi; and they fought against it a long season and made engines of war.
Then came
Jonathan to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the
audience of all the people, and of them that were in the tower:
Then the strangers, that were in the fortresses which Bacchides had built, fled away;
Then gathered king Alexander great forces, and camped over against
Demetrius.
Then Ptolemee the king gave answer, saying, Happy be the day wherein thou
didst return into the land of thy fathers, and satest in the throne of their kingdom.
Then Demetrius made
Apollonius the governor of Celosyria his general, who gathered together a great host, and camped in Jamnia, and sent unto
Jonathan the high priest, saying,
Then Jonathan followed after him to
Azotus, where the armies joined battle.
Then brought Simon forth his host, and set them against the
footmen, (for the
horsemen were spent) who were
discomfited by him, and fled.
And from
thence Jonathan removed his host, and camped against
Ascalon, where the men of the city came forth, and met him with great
pomp.
Then Ptolemee entered into Antioch, where he set two crowns upon his head, the crown of Asia, and of Egypt.
Then came ungodly persons, who
hated their own people, went unto the king, and told him that
Jonathan besieged the tower,
Then Jonathan desired the king, that he would make
Judea free from tribute, as also the three governments, with the country of Samaria; and he promised him three hundred talents.
Then the king called to the Jews for help, who came unto him all at once, and
dispersing themselves through the city
slew that day in the city to the number of an hundred thousand.
Then there gathered unto him all the men of war, whom
Demetrius had put away, and they fought against
Demetrius, who turned his back and fled.
Then Jonathan went forth, and passed through the cities beyond the water, and all the forces of Syria gathered themselves unto him for to help him: and when he came to
Ascalon, they of the city met him honourably.
Then Simon
encamped against Bethsura and fought against it a long season, and shut it up:
But they desired to have peace with him, which he granted them, and then put them out from thence, and took the city, and set a garrison in it.
Then Jonathan rent his clothes, and cast earth upon his head, and prayed.
There were letters sent in times past unto Onias the high priest from
Darius, who reigned
then among you, to
signify that ye are our brethren, as the copy here underwritten
doth specify.
Then Jonathan pursued after them, but overtook them not: for they were gone over the river Eleutherus.
And removing thence, he came to Damascus, and so passed through all the country,
Then Jonathan went out to meet him with forty thousand men chosen for the battle, and came to Bethsan.
Then all the heathen that were round about
then sought to destroy them: for said they, They have no captain, nor any to help them: now therefore let us make war upon them, and take away their
memorial from among men.
So
then he gathered together all the men of war, and made
haste to finish the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.
Then sent Simon, and took the bones of
Jonathan his brother, and buried them in Modin, the city of his fathers.
Then Simon built up the strong holds in
Judea, and
fenced them about with high towers, and great walls, and gates, and bars, and laid up
victuals therein.
And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let
then be
enrolled, and let there be peace
betwixt us.
Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
Then cried they to Simon,
beseeching him to be at one with them: which thing he granted them; and when he had put them out from
thence, he
cleansed the tower from pollutions:
Then did they till their ground in peace, and the earth gave her increase, and the trees of the field their fruit.
So
then they wrote it in tables of brass, which they set upon pillars in mount
Sion: and this is the copy of the writing; The
eighteenth day of the month
Elul, in the hundred
threescore and
twelfth year, being the third year of Simon the high priest,
Then Simon accepted
hereof, and was well pleased to be high priest, and captain and governor of the Jews and priests, and to defend them all.
Then camped
Antiochus against Dora, having with him an hundred and twenty thousand men of war, and eight thousand
horsemen.
Then answered Simon, and said unto him, We have neither taken other men’s land, nor
holden that which appertaineth to others, but the inheritance of our fathers, which our enemies had
wrongfully in possession a certain time.
Then the king made Cendebeus captain of the sea coast, and gave him an host of
footmen and
horsemen,
Then came up John from Gazera, and told Simon his father what Cendebeus had done.
So he and his people pitched over against them: and when he saw that the people were afraid to go over the water
brook, he went first over himself, and
then the men seeing him passed through after him.
Then sounded they with the holy
trumpets:
whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the
remnant gat them to the strong hold.
Then Ptolemee wrote these things, and sent to the king, that he should send him an host to aid him, and he would deliver him the country and cities.
And burned the
porch, and shed innocent blood:
then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the
loaves.
For when our fathers were led into Persia, the priests that were
then devout took the fire of the altar
privily, and
hid it in an hollow place of a pit without water, where they kept it sure, so that the place was unknown to all men.
Then commanded he them to draw it up, and to bring it; and when the sacrifices were laid on, Neemias commanded the priests to
sprinkle the wood and the things laid
thereupon with the water.
Then the king, inclosing the place, made it holy, after he had tried the matter.
Then shall the Lord
shew them these things, and the glory of the Lord shall appear, and the cloud also, as it was shewed under Moses, and as when Solomon desired that the place might be honourably
sanctified.
Whereas we
then are about to
celebrate the
purification, we have written unto you, and ye shall do well, if ye keep the same days.
Here
then will we begin the story: only adding thus much to that which hath been said, that it is a
foolish thing to make a long
prologue, and to be short in the story itself.