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We took the side of your father, we obeyed his orders and observed his laws. (1 Maccabees 6, 23)
Let us permit them to live according to their customs as before, since all this came to be because we suppressed their laws, and they have risen in defense of them." (1 Maccabees 6, 59)
Some of them shall be stationed at the king's fortresses, and positions of trust shall be given to some of them; their officers shall be chosen from among themselves and they will live according to their laws as the king has prescribed in the land of Judea. (1 Maccabees 10, 37)
There he called the people together and encouraged them with this exhortation: "All of you know what I, my brothers, and the family of my father have done for the laws and for the Holy Place. You also know the wars and the hardships we endured. (1 Maccabees 13, 3)
They regained the Temple renowned throughout the world, liberated the city and reestablished the laws which were nearly abolished, for the Lord was gracious to them in his great kindness. (2 Maccabees 2, 22)
While the Holy City enjoyed complete peace and the laws were observed as perfectly as possible through the piety of Onias the High Priest and his hatred for all wickedness, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
He even dared to lay the blame for everything on Onias who was the great benefactor of the city, the defender of his compatriots and a zealous observer of the laws. (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
For it is not easy to break the divine laws with impunity as the following episodes will show. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
After a while, the king sent an older Athenian to force the Jews to abandon their ancestral laws and no longer live according to the laws of God. (2 Maccabees 6, 1)
But he preferred to make a noble decision worthy of his age, of his noble years, of his shining white hair, and of the irreproachable life he had led from childhood. Above all, showing respect for the holy laws established by God, he answered that he would rather be sent to the place of the dead. And he added, (2 Maccabees 6, 23)
So I shall leave an excellent example to the young, dying voluntarily and valiantly for the sacred and holy laws." Having said this, he gave himself over to death. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
At the moment of his last breath, he said, "Murderer, you now dismiss us from life, but the King of the world will raise us up. He will give us eternal life since we die for his laws." (2 Maccabees 7, 9)