me no more into such troubles; but if
they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten
them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the
blasphemous and barbarous nations.

2 Mac 10:5
Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple,
on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and
twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.

2 Mac 10:6
And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast
of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had
held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the
mountains and dens like beasts.

2 Mac 10:7
Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms
also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success
in cleansing his place.

2 Mac 10:8
They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every
year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.

2 Mac 10:9
And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.

2 Mac 10:10
Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was
the son of this wicked man, gathering briefly the calamities of
the wars.

2 Mac 10:11
So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the
affairs of his realm, and appointed him his chief governor of
Celosyria and Phenice.

2 Mac 10:12
For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do
justice unto the Jews for the wrong that had been done unto
them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.

2 Mac 10:13
Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before Eupator,
and called traitor at every word because he had left Cyprus,
that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to
Antiochus Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable
place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned himself and died.

2 Mac 10:14
But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired
soldiers, and nourished war continually with the Jews:

2 Mac 10:15
And therewithall the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands
the most commodious holds, kept the Jews occupied, and receiving
those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about to
nourish war.

2 Mac 10:16
Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and
besought God that he would be their helper; and so they ran with
violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans,

2 Mac 10:17
And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept
off all that fought upon the wall, and slew all that fell into