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The son of Dekar, in Makaz , and in Shaalbim , and Beth–shemesh, and Elon –beth–hanan:

In those days he encamped against Gazara, and compassed it round about with armies; and he made an engine of siege, and brought it up to the city, and struck a tower, and took it.

and he gathered together a great number of captives, and got the dominion of Gazara, and Bethsura, and the citadel, and he took away from it its uncleannesses; and there was none that resisted him.

and the son of Abubus received them deceitfully into the little stronghold that is called Dok, which he had built, and made them a great banquet, and hid men there.

Having arrived at Ptolemais , called from the specialty of that district Rose-bearing, where the fleet, in accordance with the general wish, waited for them seven days,

and he fortified Joppa which is upon the sea, and Gazara which is upon the borders of Azotus , wherein the enemies lived aforetime, and placed Jews there, and set therein all things convenient for the reparation thereof:

But as touching Joppa and Gazara, which you demand, they did great harm among the people throughout our country, we will give a hundred talents for them. And he answered him not a word,

thereupon he saw a man appear, of venerable age and exceeding glory, and wonderful and most majestic was the dignity around him:

And he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; and he was not able, because the thing was known to them of the city,

And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the solemn trumpets.

Maccabaeus, perceiving the presence of the troops, and the various arms with which they were equipped, and the savageness of the elephants, holding up his hands to heaven called upon the Lord that works wonders, recognising that success comes not by arms, but that, according as the Lord shall judge, he gaineth the victory for them that are worthy.

and cutting out the tongue of the impious Nicanor, he said that he would give it by pieces to the birds, and hang up the rewards of his madness over against the sanctuary.

but Maccabaeus still trusted unceasingly, with all hope that he should obtain help from the Lord.

and they fled to the towers that are in the fields of Azotus ; and he burned it with fire; and there fell of them about two thousand men. And he returned into Judaea in peace.

and they took the money of those that had come there to buy them. And after they had pursued them for some distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;

And they chose to die, that they might not be defiled with the meats, and that they might not profane the holy covenant: and they died.

and how that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the land of Gilead , and that tomorrow they have appointed to encamp against the strongholds, and to take them, and to destroy all these men in one day.

Well; since I have done this, said he, be the cause what it may, shall I not enter with or without your consent?

And they brought the priests’ garments, and the first fruits, and the tithes: and they stirred up the Nazarites, who had accomplished their days.

and went through to the ends of the earth, and took spoils of a multitude of nations. And the earth was quiet before him, and he was exalted, and his heart was lifted up,

The children of Magbish, an hundred fifty and six.

but hold you on your way, and behold his sovereign majesty, how it will torture you and your seed.

And when the first had died after this manner, they brought the second to the mocking; and they pulled off the skin of his head with the hair and asked him, Wilt you eat, before your body be punished in every limb?

And the king’s officers, that were enforcing the apostasy, came into the city Modin to sacrifice.