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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.
Doubtless I will
avenge my nation, and the sanctuary, and our wives, and our children: for all the
heathen are gathered to destroy us of very
malice.
Thus the yoke of the
heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and
seventieth year.
For in his time things
prospered in his hands, so that the
heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of which they issued, and
polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much
hurt in the holy place:
Gather those together that are scattered from us, deliver them that serve among the
heathen, look upon them that are
despised and
abhorred, and let the
heathen know that thou art our God.
Beside this, he promised to
assign an hundred and fifty more, if he might have licence to set him up a place for exercise, and for the training up of youth in the fashions of the
heathen, and to write them of Jerusalem by the name of Antiochians.
Now such was the height of Greek fashions, and increase of
heathenish manners, through the exceeding
profaneness of
Jason, that ungodly
wretch, and no high priest;
Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of the heathen, by the suggestion of Ptolemee, against the Jews, that they should observe the same fashions, and be partakers of their sacrifices:
Now when Maccabeus had his company about him, he could not be
withstood by the
heathen: for the wrath of the Lord was turned into mercy.
So Maccabeus called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and
exhorted them not to be
stricken with terror of the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the
heathen, who came wrongly against them; but to fight
manfully,
But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.
And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:
Now when the Jews heard of Nicanor’s coming, and that the
heathen were up against them, they cast earth upon their heads, and made
supplication to him that had established his people for ever, and who always helpeth his portion with
manifestation of his presence.
Wherefore he
exhorted his people not to fear the coming of the
heathen against them, but to remember the help which in former times they had received from heaven, and now to expect the victory and aid, which should come unto them from the
Almighty.
And when he had
stirred up their minds, he gave them their charge,
shewing them therewithall the
falsehood of the
heathen, and the breach of oaths.