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• It was then that there emerged from Israel a set of renegades who led many people astray. 'Come,' they said, 'let us ally ourselves with the gentiles surrounding us, for since we separated ourselves from them many misfortunes have overtaken us.' (1 Maccabees 1, 11)

• and a number of the people eagerly approached the king, who authorised them to practise the gentiles' observances. (1 Maccabees 1, 13)

• So they built a gymnasium in Jerusalem, such as the gentiles have, (1 Maccabees 1, 14)

• All the gentiles conformed to the king's decree, (1 Maccabees 1, 42)

• See how the Holy Place, our beauty, our glory, is now laid waste, see how the gentiles have profaned it! (1 Maccabees 2, 12)

• and said to one another, 'If we all do as our brothers have done, and refuse to fight the gentiles for our lives and institutions, they will only destroy us the sooner from the earth.' (1 Maccabees 2, 40)

• They organised themselves into an armed force, striking down the sinners in their anger, and the renegades in their fury, and those who escaped them fled to the gentiles for safety. (1 Maccabees 2, 44)

• They wrested the Law out of the control of the gentiles and the kings and reduced the sinners to impotence. (1 Maccabees 2, 48)

• Judas Maccabaeus, strong and brave from his youth, let him be your general and conduct the war against the gentiles. (1 Maccabees 2, 66)

• Pay back the gentiles to the full, and hold fast to the ordinance of the Law.' (1 Maccabees 2, 68)

• Next, Apollonius mustered the gentiles and a large force from Samaria to make war on Israel. (1 Maccabees 3, 10)

• Jerusalem was as empty as a desert, none of her children to go in and out. The sanctuary was trodden underfoot, men of an alien race held the Citadel, which had become a lodging for gentiles. There was no more rejoicing for Jacob, the flute and lyre were mute. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)