The First Book of the Maccabees

AND it came to pass, after that Alexander the Macedonian, the son of Philip, who came out of the land of Chitt...

In those days rose up Mattathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jeru...

And his son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his stead. And all his brethren helped him, and so di...

And Gorgias took five thousand footmen, and a thousand chosen horse, and the army removed by night, that it mi...

And it came to pass, when the Gentiles round about heard that the altar was built, and the sanctuary dedicated...

And king Antiochus was journeying through the upper countries; and he heard say, that in Elymais in Persia the...