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Now a part of the king's army was spread out on the high hills, and some troops were on the plain, and they advanced steadily and in good order. (1 Maccabees 6, 40)
to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
"Since wars often occurred in the country, Simon the son of Mattathias, a priest of the sons of Joarib, and his brothers, exposed themselves to danger and resisted the enemies of their nation, in order that their sanctuary and the law might be perserved; and they brought great glory to their nation. (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
Since on the twenty-fifth day of Chislev we shall celebrate the purification of the temple, we thought it necessary to notify you, in order that you also may celebrate the feast of booths and the feast of the fire given when Nehemiah, who built the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
While he lay prostrate, speechless because of the divine intervention and deprived of any hope of recovery, (2 Maccabees 3, 29)
For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws -- a fact which later events will make clear. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
in order that he may not take vengeance on us afterward when our sins have reached their height. (2 Maccabees 6, 15)
"I do not know how you came into being in my womb. It was not I who gave you life and breath, nor I who set in order the elements within each of you. (2 Maccabees 7, 22)
They advanced in battle order, having their heavenly ally, for the Lord had mercy on them. (2 Maccabees 11, 10)
I know that whatever God does endures for ever; nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; God has made it so, in order that men should fear before him. (Ecclesiastes 3, 14)
in order that those men, when they desired food, might lose the least remnant of appetite because of the odious creatures sent to them, while thy people, after suffering want a short time, might partake of delicacies. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 3)
whereas the fire, in order that the righteous might be fed, even forgot its native power. (Wisdom of Solomon 16, 23)