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  • Judas called Maccabeus, (1 Maccabees 2, 4)

  • Judas Maccabeus has been valiant from his youth: let him be your general and conduct the war against foreigners. (1 Maccabees 2, 66)

  • Mattathias' son, Judas Maccabeus, succeeded him. (1 Maccabees 3, 1)

  • Judas made the name of his people more famous. He put on his breastplate and girded himself with the armor of war like a giant; he fought many battles and protected his camp with his sword. (1 Maccabees 3, 3)

  • When Judas learned of this, he went out to meet him in battle; he defeated and killed him. Many of the enemy fell and the rest fled. (1 Maccabees 3, 11)

  • They seized the plunder and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and from then on he always used it in battle. (1 Maccabees 3, 12)

  • Seron, the commander of the Syrian army, learned that Judas had gathered many men and that the whole community of believers was at his side. (1 Maccabees 3, 13)

  • He thought: "This is now the opportunity for me to make myself famous and become an important man in the kingdom. I will go to fight Judas and his men who do not obey the king's order." (1 Maccabees 3, 14)

  • As Seron approached the slope of Beth-horon, Judas went out to confront him with a small company of warriors. (1 Maccabees 3, 16)

  • But on seeing the enemy advancing against them, Judas' men said to him, "How can we, few as we are, fight against so many? And besides, we feel weak for we have not eaten anything today." (1 Maccabees 3, 17)

  • But Judas declared: "A multitude shall easily fall into the hands of a few, for Heaven can win over equally well with the help of many or of few. (1 Maccabees 3, 18)

  • With this, fright and fear of Judas and his brothers seized the pagans who lived around them. (1 Maccabees 3, 25)


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