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And therefore the place itself, which was partaker with them in the adversities that happened to the nation, afterward participated in the benefits sent from the Lord; and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up in all glory.
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So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed with all haste unto Antioch, believing in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable on foot; such was the haughtiness of his mind!
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And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, by his country a Phrygian, and in manners more barbarous than he that set him there;
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and at Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse than all the rest, bore a heavy hand over the citizens, having a malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.
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He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all those who were at their best age and to sell the women and the younger sort.
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So coming to Jerusalem and pretending peace, he forbore till the holy day of the Sabbath when, taking the Jews keeping holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.
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And so he slew all those who had gone to the celebrating of the Sabbath and, running through the city with weapons, slew great multitudes.
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But Judas Maccabeus, with nine others or thereabout, withdrew himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains in the manner of beasts with his company, who fed on herbs continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.