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To the nation the king's letter was as follows: "King Antiochus to the senate of the Jews and to the other Jews, greeting. (2 Maccabees 11, 27)
for the Jews to enjoy their own food and laws, just as formerly, and none of them shall be molested in any way for what he may have done in ignorance. (2 Maccabees 11, 31)
The Romans also sent them a letter, which read thus: "Quintus Memmius and Titus Manius, envoys of the Romans, to the people of the Jews, greeting. (2 Maccabees 11, 34)
When this agreement had been reached, Lysias returned to the king, and the Jews went about their farming. (2 Maccabees 12, 1)
And some men of Joppa did so ungodly a deed as this: they invited the Jews who lived among them to embark, with their wives and children, on boats which they had provided, as though there were no ill will to the Jews; (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
But learning that the men in Jamnia meant in the same way to wipe out the Jews who were living among them, (2 Maccabees 12, 8)
When they had gone ninety-five miles from there, they came to Charax, to the Jews who are called Toubiani. (2 Maccabees 12, 17)
But the Jews called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
But when the Jews who dwelt there bore witness to the good will which the people of Scythopolis had shown them and their kind treatment of them in times of misfortune, (2 Maccabees 12, 30)
When they joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews fell. (2 Maccabees 12, 34)
Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen. (2 Maccabees 12, 40)
The king with barbarous arrogance was coming to show the Jews things far worse than those that had been done in his father's time. (2 Maccabees 13, 9)