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14 They trusted Alcimus, who was a priest descended from Aaron, and they thought he would not cause them any harm.

15 Alcimus assured them of his peaceful intentions and solemnly promised that no harm would come to them or their friends.

20 Bacchides put the country under the control of Alcimus, left troops there to help him, and returned to the king.

23 Judas saw that the trouble Alcimus and his men had caused was even worse than the damage done by the Gentiles.

26 Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his most honored officers, who hated the Jews, with orders to exterminate them.

37 "Lord, you chose this Temple to bear your name and to be a place of prayer and intercession for your people.

3 He had been told what they had done in Spain when they captured the silver mines and the gold mines there.

7 They took him alive and forced him and his successors to pay heavy taxes, to give hostages, and to surrender

22 The other deeds of Judas, his battles, his courageous deeds, and his great accomplishments, were too many to write down.

23 After the death of Judas, the lawless traitors began to reappear everywhere in Judea, and all the wicked people returned.

24 Also at that time there was a severe famine, and the whole country went over to the side of the renegades.

53 Then he took the sons of the leading men of the country as hostages and imprisoned them in the fort.

64 He attacked Bethbasi from all sides and built siege platforms. After the battle had gone on for a long time,

7 So Jonathan went to Jerusalem and read the letter to all the people and to the men in the fort.

19 I have heard that you are a brave man who has earned the right to be a friend of the king.

29 I hereby grant all the Jewish people release and exemption from payment of regular taxes, salt taxes, and other special taxes.

35 No one has the right on any of these days to demand payment or to trouble you in any way.

55 King Ptolemy replied, "It was a great day when you returned to your country and took the throne of your ancestors.

6 Jonathan, with all the proper ceremony, went to Joppa to meet him. They exchanged greetings and spent the night there.

14 King Alexander was in Cilicia at the time because the people of that region were in a state of rebellion.