1 This Shim’on now, of whom we spoke before, having been a betrayer of the silver and of his country, slandered Onyah as if he had terrified Heliodorus and been the worker of these evils. 2 Thus he was bold to call him a traitor, that had deserved good from Read more
1 About the same time Antioḵos prepared his second voyage to Mitsrayim. 2 And then it came to be, that through all the city for almost forty days, there was seen horsemen running in the air in golden garments, and armed with lances like a band of soldiers, 3 and Read more
1 Not long after this, the sovereign sent an old man of Athĕnai to compel the Yahuḏim to depart from the Laws of their fathers and not to live after the Laws of Elohim, 2 and to also pollute the Hĕyḵal in Yerushalayim, and to call it the temple of Read more
1 It also came to be, that seven brothers with their mother were taken, and compelled by the sovereign – against the Law – to eat pig’s flesh, and were tortured with scourges and whips. 2 But one of them that spoke first said, “What would you ask or learn Read more
1 Then Yahuḏah Maqqaḇah, and those that were with him, went secretly into the towns and called their clans together, and took to them all who continued in the belief of the Yahuḏim and assembled about six thousand men. 2 And they called upon 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄, that He would look upon Read more
1 About that time Antioḵos came out of the country of Paras with dishonor; 2 for he had entered the city called Persepolis, and attempted to rob the temple and to hold the city; therefore the multitude running to defend themselves with their weapons put them to flight. And so Read more
1 Now with 𐤉𐤄𐤅𐤄 guiding them Maqqaḇah and his army recovered the Hĕyḵal and the city. 2 And they pulled down the altars and also the chapels which the gentiles had built in the open street. 3 And having cleansed the Hĕyḵal they made another altar, and striking flint they Read more
1 Not long after, Lusias the sovereign’s protector and cousin, who also managed the affairs, took great displeasure in that which was done. 2 And when he had gathered about eighty thousand with all the horsemen, he came against the Yahuḏim, thinking to make the city a dwelling for the Read more
1 When these covenants were made, Lusias went to the sovereign, and the Yahuḏim were within their land. 2 But of the governors of several places, Timotheos and Apollonios the son of Genneus, also Hieronumos and Dĕmophon, and besides them, Nikanor the governor of Cyprus, would not allow them to Read more
1 In the hundred and forty-ninth year Yahuḏah was informed Antioḵos Eupator was approaching Yahuḏah with a great force 2 with Lusias his guardian and governor with him, each having a Yawanite force of a hundred and ten thousand footmen and five thousand three hundred horsemen and twenty-two elephants and Read more