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A part of the king's army went up to Jerusalem to attack them, and the king established camps in Judea and at Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 6, 48)
At that time Jonathan gathered together the men of Judea to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and they set up many machines against it. (1 Maccabees 11, 20)
Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius had returned to attack him with a stronger army than before. (1 Maccabees 12, 24)
The spies he had sent into their camp came back and reported that the enemy had made ready to attack the Jews that very night. (1 Maccabees 12, 26)
No one was left to attack them in their land; the kings in those days were crushed. (1 Maccabees 14, 13)
As the crowds, now thoroughly enraged, began to riot, Lysimachus launched an unjustified attack against them with about three thousand armed men under the leadership of Auranus, a man as advanced in folly as he was in years. (2 Maccabees 4, 40)
Reacting against Lysimachus' attack, the people picked up stones or pieces of wood or handfuls of the ashes lying there and threw them in wild confusion at Lysimachus and his men. (2 Maccabees 4, 41)
"They trust in weapons and acts of daring," he said, "but we trust in almighty God, who can by a mere nod destroy not only those who attack us, but the whole world." (2 Maccabees 8, 18)
When Gorgias became governor of the region, he employed foreign troops and used every opportunity to attack the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
So he invaded Judea, and when he reached Beth-zur, a fortified place about twenty miles from Jerusalem, launched a strong attack against it. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
and after calling upon God, the just judge, he marched against the murderers of his kinsmen. In a night attack he set the harbor on fire, burnt the boats, and put to the sword those who had taken refuge there. (2 Maccabees 12, 6)
Giving his men the battle cry "God's Victory," he made a night attack on the king's pavilion with a picked force of the bravest young men and killed about two thousand in the camp. They also slew the lead elephant and its rider. (2 Maccabees 13, 15)