e king and the princes were content: wherefore he sent
unto them to make peace; and they accepted thereof.

1 Mac 6:61
Also the king and the princes made an oath unto them:
whereupon they went out of the strong hold.

1 Mac 6:62
Then the king entered into mount Sion; but when he saw the
strength of the place, he broke his oath that he had made, and
gave commandment to pull down the wall round about.

1 Mac 6:63
Afterward departed he in all haste, and returned unto
Antiochia, where he found Philip to be master of the city: so he
fought against him, and took the city by force.

1 Mac 7:1
In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of
Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a
city of the sea coast, and reigned there.

1 Mac 7:2
And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it
was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring
them unto him.

1 Mac 7:3
Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their
faces.

1 Mac 7:4
So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the
throne of his kingdom,

1 Mac 7:5
There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel,
having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their
captain:

1 Mac 7:6
And they accused the people to the king, saying, Judas and
his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of
our own land.

1 Mac 7:7
Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him
go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king's
land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.

1 Mac 7:8
Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who
ruled beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and
faithful to the king,

1 Mac 7:9
And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high
priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the
children of Israel.

1 Mac 7:10
So they departed, and came with a great power into the land
of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren
with peaceable words deceitfully.

1 Mac 7:11
But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they
were come with a great power.

1 Mac 7:12
Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company
of scribes, to require justice.

1 Mac 7:13
Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel
that sought peace of them:

1 Mac 7:14
For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is
come wit