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Every Jewish person taken from Judaea into captivity in any part of my kingdom I set free without ransom, and decree that all will be exempt from taxes, even on their livestock. (1 Maccabees 10, 33)
'King Demetrius to Jonathan his brother, and to the Jewish nation, greetings. (1 Maccabees 11, 30)
The envoys made their way to Rome, entered the Senate and said, 'Jonathan the high priest and the Jewish nation have sent us to renew your treaty of friendship and alliance with them as before.' (1 Maccabees 12, 3)
'Jonathan the high priest, the senate of the nation, the priests and the rest of the Jewish people to the Spartans their brothers, greetings. (1 Maccabees 12, 6)
fortifying the towns of Judaea, as well as Beth-Zur on the Judaean frontier where the enemy arsenal had formerly been, and stationing in it a garrison of Jewish soldiers; (1 Maccabees 14, 33)
fortifying Joppa on the coast, and Gezer on the borders of Azotus, a place formerly inhabited by the enemy, founding a Jewish colony there, and providing the settlers with everything they needed to set them on their feet; (1 Maccabees 14, 34)
to station Jewish soldiers there instead for the security of the country and the city; and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem; (1 Maccabees 14, 37)
this was how it read: 'King Antiochus to Simon, high priest and ethnarch, and to the Jewish nation, greetings. (1 Maccabees 15, 2)
'The Jewish ambassadors have come to us as our friends and allies to renew our original friendship and alliance in the name of the high priest Simon and the Jewish people. (1 Maccabees 15, 17)
Accordingly, we have seen fit to write to various kings and states, warning them neither to molest the Jewish people nor to attack either them or their towns or their country, nor to ally themselves with any such aggressors. (1 Maccabees 15, 19)
People were driven by harsh compulsion to take part in the monthly ritual meal commemorating the king's birthday; and when a feast of Dionysus occurred, they were forced to wear ivy wreaths and walk in the Dionysiac procession. (2 Maccabees 6, 7)
The people supervising the ritual meal, forbidden by the Law, because of the length of time for which they had known him, took him aside and privately urged him to have meat brought of a kind he could properly use, prepared by himself, and only pretend to eat the portions of sacrificial meat as prescribed by the king; (2 Maccabees 6, 21)