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and that they were very strong. Men told him of their wars and of the brave deeds which they were doing among the Gauls, how they had defeated them and forced them to pay tribute, (1 Maccabees 8, 2)
Now the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars and the brave deeds that he did, and his greatness, have not been recorded, for they were very many. (1 Maccabees 9, 22)
But as for ourselves, many afflictions and many wars have encircled us; the kings round about us have waged war against us. (1 Maccabees 12, 13)
We were unwilling to annoy you and our other allies and friends with these wars, (1 Maccabees 12, 14)
he encouraged them, saying to them, "You yourselves know what great things I and my brothers and the house of my father have done for the laws and the sanctuary; you know also the wars and the difficulties which we have seen. (1 Maccabees 13, 3)
"Since wars often occurred in the country, Simon the son of Mattathias, a priest of the sons of Joarib, and his brothers, exposed themselves to danger and resisted the enemies of their nation, in order that their sanctuary and the law might be perserved; and they brought great glory to their nation. (1 Maccabees 14, 29)
And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were put out of the country, as were also the men in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary and do great damage to its purity. (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
And Simon called in his two older sons Judas and John, and said to them: "I and my brothers and the house of my father have fought the wars of Israel from our youth until this day, and things have prospered in our hands so that we have delivered Israel many times. (1 Maccabees 16, 2)
The rest of the acts of John and his wars and the brave deeds which he did, and the building of the walls which he built, and his achievements, (1 Maccabees 16, 23)
The same things are reported in the records and in the memoirs of Nehemiah, and also that he founded a library and collected the books about the kings and prophets, and the writings of David, and letters of kings about votive offerings. (2 Maccabees 2, 13)
and further the wars against Antiochus Epiphanes and his son Eupator, (2 Maccabees 2, 20)
Now we will tell what took place under Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of that ungodly man, and will give a brief summary of the principal calamities of the wars. (2 Maccabees 10, 10)