Found 24 Results for: Bacchides

• The king chose Bacchides, one of the Friends of the King, governor of Transeuphrates, an important personage in the kingdom and loyal to the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 8)

• Nevertheless, a commission of scribes presented themselves before Alcimus and Bacchides, to sue for just terms. (1 Maccabees 7, 12)

• Bacchides then left Jerusalem and encamped at Beth-Zeth, and from there sent and arrested many of the men who had deserted him and a few of our people too; he had them killed and thrown down the great well. (1 Maccabees 7, 19)

• He then put Alcimus in charge of the province, leaving an army with him to support him; Bacchides himself returned to the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 20)

• Demetrius, hearing that Nicanor and his army had fallen in battle, sent Bacchides and Alcimus a second time into Judaea, and with them the right wing of his army. (1 Maccabees 9, 1)

• Bacchides was on the right wing. The phalanx advanced from between the two squadrons, sounding the trumpets; the men on Judas' side also blew their trumpets, (1 Maccabees 9, 12)

• Judas saw that Bacchides and the main strength of his army lay on the right; all the stout-hearted rallied to him, (1 Maccabees 9, 14)

• Bacchides deliberately chose the enemies of religion to administer the country. (1 Maccabees 9, 25)

• These traced and searched out the friends of Judas and brought them before Bacchides, who ill-treated and mocked them. (1 Maccabees 9, 26)

• 'Since your brother Judas died, there has been no one like him to head the resistance against our enemies, people like Bacchides and others who hate our nation. (1 Maccabees 9, 29)

• Bacchides, when he heard the news, made plans to kill Jonathan. (1 Maccabees 9, 32)

• (Bacchides came to know of this on the Sabbath day, and he too crossed the Jordan with his entire army.) (1 Maccabees 9, 34)