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Next, the gentiles of Gilead banded together to destroy the Israelites living in their territory. The latter, however, took refuge in the fortress of Dathema, (1 Maccabees 5, 9)
Judas sent them a conciliatory message in these terms, 'We want to pass through your territory to reach our own; no one will do you any harm, we only want to go through on foot.' But they would not open up for him. (1 Maccabees 5, 48)
Judas went right round the whole territory of Judaea to take vengeance on those who had deserted him and to prevent their free movement about the country. (1 Maccabees 7, 24)
of the Indian territory, with Media, Lydia, and some of their best provinces, which they took from him and gave to King Eumenes. (1 Maccabees 8, 8)
Jerusalem will be sacred and exempt, with its territory, from tithes and dues. (1 Maccabees 10, 31)
We confirm them in their possession of the territory of Judaea and the three districts of Aphairema, Lydda and Ramathaim; these were annexed to Judaea from Samaritan territory, with all their dependencies, in favour of all who offer sacrifice in Jerusalem, instead of the royal dues which the king formerly received from them every year, from the yield of the soil and the fruit crops. (1 Maccabees 11, 34)
He therefore left Jerusalem and went to engage them in the area of Hamath, not giving them the time to invade his own territory. (1 Maccabees 12, 25)
When Arsaces king of Persia and Media heard that Demetrius had entered his territory, he sent one of his generals to capture him alive. (1 Maccabees 14, 2)
the enemy planned to invade the country, intending to devastate their territory and to lay hands on their sanctuary, (1 Maccabees 14, 31)
You have laid waste their territory and done immense harm to the country; and you have seized control of many places properly in my kingdom. (1 Maccabees 15, 29)
but Simon gave him this answer, 'We have not taken foreign territory or any alien property but have occupied our ancestral heritage, for some time unjustly wrested from us by our enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
He received Maccabaeus kindly and, leaving Hegemonides to exercise command from Ptolemais to the territory of the Gerrenians, (2 Maccabees 13, 24)