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Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was
cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.
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And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering
that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains
and dens like beasts.
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Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that
had given them good success in cleansing his place.
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They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be
kept of the whole nation of the Jews.
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And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.
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Now will we declare the acts of Antiochus Eupator, who was the son of this wicked man,
gathering briefly the calamities of the wars.
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So when he was come to the crown, he set one Lysias over the affairs of his realm, and
appointed him his chief governor of Celosyria and Phenice.
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For Ptolemeus, that was called Macron, choosing rather to do justice unto the Jews for the
wrong that had been done unto them, endeavoured to continue peace with them.
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Whereupon being accused of the king's friends before Eupator, and called traitor at every
word because he had left Cyprus, that Philometor had committed unto him, and departed to Antiochus
Epiphanes, and seeing that he was in no honourable place, he was so discouraged, that he poisoned
himself and died.
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But when Gorgias was governor of the holds, he hired soldiers, and nourished war continually
with the Jews:
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And therewithall the Idumeans, having gotten into their hands the most commodious holds,
kept the Jews occupied, and receiving those that were banished from Jerusalem, they went about
to nourish war.
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Then they that were with Maccabeus made supplication, and besought God that he would be
their helper; and so they ran with violence upon the strong holds of the Idumeans,
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And assaulting them strongly, they won the holds, and kept off all that fought upon the wall,
and slew all that fell into their hands, and killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
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And because certain, who were no less than nine thousand, were fled together into two very
strong castles, having all manner of things convenient to sustain the siege,
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Maccabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zaccheus also, and them that were with him, who
were enough to besiege them, and departed himself unto those places which more needed his help.
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Now they that were with Simon, being led with covetousness, were persuaded for money
through certain of those that were in the castle, and took seventy thousand drachms, and let some
of them escape.
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