14 that the holy city, to which he was going in haste to lay it even with the ground and to make it a common graveyard, he would declare free. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 9:14
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2 Maccabees 8:2–4
2 They called upon the Lord to look at the people who were oppressed by all, and to have compassion on the sanctuary that had been profaned by the ungodly men, (WEB) 3 and to have pity on the city that was suffering ruin and ready to be leveled to the ground, and to lis… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 3:34–36
34 He delivered to Lysias half of his forces and the elephants, and gave him charge of all the things that he would have done, and concerning those who lived in Judea and in Jerusalem, (WEB) 35 that he should send an army against them to root out and destroy the strength… (WEB) 36 … (WEB)
1 Maccabees 10:30–32
30 Instead of the third part of the seed, and instead of half of the fruit of the trees, which falls to me to receive, I release it from this day and henceforth, so that I will not take it from the land of Judah, and from the three districts which are added to i… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 15:3–5
3 Whereas certain troublemakers have made themselves masters of the kingdom of our fathers, but my purpose is to claim the kingdom, that I may restore it as it was before; and moreover I have raised a multitude of foreign soldiers, and have prepared warships; (WEB) 4 mo… (WEB)
3 Maccabees 2:17–19
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1 Maccabees 7:41–43
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2 Maccabees 8:16–18
16 So Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them, but to fight nobly, (WEB) 17 setting before their eyes the outrage tha… (WEB)
Jeremiah 21:5–7
5 And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath. 6 I will strike down the residents of this city, both man and beast. They will die in a terrible plague.’ 7 ‘After that,’ declares the LORD, ‘I will h…
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