ed, intreated the Jews, submitted
himself, and sware to all equal conditions, agreed with them,
and offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and dealt kindly
with the place,

2 Mac 13:24
And accepted well of Maccabeus, made him principal governor
from Ptolemais unto the Gerrhenians;

2 Mac 13:25
Came to Ptolemais: the people there were grieved for the
covenants; for they stormed, because they would make their
covenants void:

2 Mac 13:26
Lysias went up to the judgment seat, said as much as could be
in defence of the cause, persuaded, pacified, made them well
affected, returned to Antioch. Thus it went touching the king's
coming and departing.

2 Mac 14:1
After three years was Judas informed, that Demetrius the son
of Seleucus, having entered by the haven of Tripolis with a
great power and navy,

2 Mac 14:2
Had taken the country, and killed Antiochus, and Lysias his
protector.

2 Mac 14:3
Now one Alcimus, who had been high priest, and had defiled
himself wilfully in the times of their mingling with the
Gentiles, seeing that by no means he could save himself, nor
have any more access to the holy altar,

2 Mac 14:4
Came to king Demetrius in the hundred and one and fiftieth
year, presenting unto him a crown of gold, and a palm, and also
of the boughs which were used solemnly in the temple: and so
that day he held his peace.

2 Mac 14:5
Howbeit having gotten opportunity to further his foolish
enterprize, and being called into counsel by Demetrius, and
asked how the Jews stood affected, and what they intended, he
answered thereunto:

2 Mac 14:6
Those of the Jews that he called Assideans, whose captain is
Judas Maccabeus, nourish war and are seditious, and will not let
the rest be in peace.

2 Mac 14:7
Therefore I, being deprived of mine ancestors' honour, I mean
the high priesthood, am now come hither:

2 Mac 14:8
First, verily for the unfeigned care I have of things
pertaining to the king; and secondly, even for that I intend the
good of mine own countrymen: for all our nation is in no small
misery through the unadvised dealing of them aforersaid.

2 Mac 14:9
Wherefore, O king, seeing knowest all these things, be
careful for the country, and our nation, which is pressed on
every side, according to the clemency that thou readily shewest
unto all.

2 Mac 14:10
For as long as Judas liveth, it is not possible that the
state should be quiet.

2 Mac 14:11
This was no sooner spoken of him, but oth