ls, weapons, money, or ships,
as it hath seemed good unto the Romans; but they shall keep
their covenants without taking any thing therefore.

1 Mac 8:27
In the same manner also, if war come first upon the nation of
the Jews, the Romans shall help them with all their heart,
according as the time shall be appointed them:

1 Mac 8:28
Neither shall victuals be given to them that take part
against them, or weapons, or money, or ships, as it hath seemed
good to the Romans; but they shall keep their covenants, and
that without deceit.

1 Mac 8:29
According to these articles did the Romans make a covenant
with the people of the Jews.

1 Mac 8:30
Howbeit if hereafter the one party or the other shall think
to meet to add or diminish any thing, they may do it at their
pleasures, and whatsoever they shall add or take away shall be
ratified.

1 Mac 8:31
And as touching the evils that Demetrius doeth to the Jews,
we have written unto him, saying, Wherefore thou made thy yoke
heavy upon our friends and confederates the Jews?

1 Mac 8:32
If therefore they complain any more against thee, we will do
them justice, and fight with thee by sea and by land.

1 Mac 9:1
Furthermore, when Demetrius heard the Nicanor and his host
were slain in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the
land of Judea the second time, and with them the chief strength
of his host:

1 Mac 9:2
Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and
pitched their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and
after they had won it, they slew much people.

1 Mac 9:3
Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year
they encamped before Jerusalem:

1 Mac 9:4
From whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty
thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.

1 Mac 9:5
Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand
chosen men with him:

1 Mac 9:6
Who seeing the multitude of the other army to be so great
were sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the
host, insomuch as abode of them no more but eight hundred men.

1 Mac 9:7
When Judas therefore saw that his host slipt away, and that
the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and
much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them
together.

1 Mac 9:8
Nevertheless unto them that remained he said, Let us arise
and go up against our enemies, if peradventure we may be able to
fight with them.

1 Mac 9:9
But they dehorted him, sa