le, and
the sea passable by foot: such was the haughtiness of his mind.

2 Mac 5:22
And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem,
Philip, for his country a Phrygian, and for manners more
barbarous than he that set him there;

2 Mac 5:23
And at Garizim, Andronicus; and besides, Menelaus, who worse
than all the rest bare an heavy hand over the citizens, having a
malicious mind against his countrymen the Jews.

2 Mac 5:24
He sent also that detestable ringleader Apollonius with an
army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to slay all
those that were in their best age, and to sell the women and the
younger sort:

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Who coming to Jerusalem, and pretending peace, did forbear
till the holy day of the sabbath, when taking the Jews keeping
holy day, he commanded his men to arm themselves.

2 Mac 5:26
And so he slew all them that were gone to the celebrating of
the sabbath, and running through the city with weapons slew
great multitudes.

2 Mac 5:27
But Judas Maccabeus with nine others, or thereabout, withdrew
himself into the wilderness, and lived in the mountains after
the manner of beasts, with his company, who fed on herbs
continually, lest they should be partakers of the pollution.

2 Mac 6:1
Not long after this the king sent an old man of Athens to
compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers, and
not to live after the laws of God:

2 Mac 6:2
And to pollute also the temple in Jerusalem, and to call it
the temple of Jupiter Olympius; and that in Garizim, of Jupiter
the Defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the
place.

2 Mac 6:3
The coming in of this mischief was sore and grievous to the
people:

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For the temple was filled with riot and revelling by the
Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to do with women
within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that brought
in things that were not lawful.

2 Mac 6:5
The altar also was filled with profane things, which the law
forbiddeth.

2 Mac 6:6
Neither was it lawful for a man to keep sabbath days or
ancient fasts, or to profess himself at all to be a Jew.

2 Mac 6:7
And in the day of the king's birth every month they were
brought by bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices; and when
the fast of Bacchus was kept, the Jews were compelled to go in
procession to Bacchus, carrying ivy.

2 Mac 6:8
Moreover there went out a decree to the neighbour cities of
the heathen, by the su