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to the end that they should keep his statutes, and observe his laws. Praise the LORD! (Psalms 105, 45)
but we fight for our lives and our laws. (1 Maccabees 3, 21)
Then he saw that the money in the treasury was exhausted, and that the revenues from the country were small because of the dissension and disaster which he had caused in the land by abolishing the laws that had existed from the earliest days. (1 Maccabees 3, 29)
and agree to let them live by their laws as they did before; for it was on account of their laws which we abolished that they became angry and did all these things." (1 Maccabees 6, 59)
Let some of them be stationed in the great strongholds of the king, and let some of them be put in positions of trust in the kingdom. Let their officers and leaders be of their own number, and let them live by their own laws, just as the king has commanded in the land of Judah. (1 Maccabees 10, 37)
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)
and recovered the temple famous throughout the world and freed the city and restored the laws that were about to be abolished, while the Lord with great kindness became gracious to them -- (2 Maccabees 2, 22)
While the holy city was inhabited in unbroken peace and the laws were very well observed because of the piety of the high priest Onias and his hatred of wickedness, (2 Maccabees 3, 1)
He dared to designate as a plotter against the government the man who was the benefactor of the city, the protector of his fellow countrymen, and a zealot for the laws. (2 Maccabees 4, 2)
For it is no light thing to show irreverence to the divine laws -- a fact which later events will make clear. (2 Maccabees 4, 17)
Finally he met a miserable end. Accused before Aretas the ruler of the Arabs, fleeing from city to city, pursued by all men, hated as a rebel against the laws, and abhorred as the executioner of his country and his fellow citizens, he was cast ashore in Egypt; (2 Maccabees 5, 8)
Not content with this, Antiochus dared to enter the most holy temple in all the world, guided by Menelaus, who had become a traitor both to the laws and to his country. (2 Maccabees 5, 15)