There came a certain Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar ... Mathathias saw and was grieved, and his reins trembled ... and running upon him he slew him upon the altar. 2:23
Cruelty & Violence (37)
Absurdity (32)
Intolerance (30)
Injustice (27)
Boring stuff (10)
Family Values (2)
Women (1)
The First Book of Machabees
1 Antiochus forces the Israelites to abandon their religion (1-67)
2 The five sons of Mathathias refuse to worship idols (1-22)
Mathathias murders a Jew who sacrificed to idols (and a Greek officer) (23-26)
A thousand people are killed by King Antiochus's men (27-38)
Mathathias and his friends kill the sinners and circumcise children (39-48)
Mathathias dies (49-70)
3 Judas becomes the leader of the Machabeus family (1-7)
Judas kills Apollonius and takes his sword (8-12)
Judas kills 800 of Seron's men (13-26)
King Antiochus prepares to attack (27-60)
4 Judas kills 3000 of Gorgias's men (1-26)
Judas kills 5000 of Lysias's men (27-35)
Judas cleans the temple (36-61)
5 The Gentiles are angry because the Jews cleaned the temple (1-2)
Judas slaughters the children of Esau, Bean, and Ammon (1-8)
The Gentiles gather an army (9-16)
Simon kills almost 3000 heathens (17-27)
Judas killed every male in the city of Bosar (28-29)
Timotheus's army is frightened away by trumpets (30-34)
Judas killed every male and burned at least five more cities (35-39)
Timotheus's army runs away and Judas burns them to death (40-44)
Judas kills every male in Ephron and burns the city (45-55)
Joseph and Azarias try to become famous by killing Gentiles (56-62)
Judas and his brothers attack the strangers and destroy their altars (63-68)
6 King Antiochus is literally scared to death (1-16)
The battle of Beth-zachariah (17-63)
7 Demetrius becomes king (1-4)
Alcimus and Bacchides attack Judas (5-22)
Judas kills Nicanor and all 5000 of his men (23-50)
8 The Jews form an alliance with the Romans (1-32)
Eupolemus and Jason go to Rome (17-32)
9 Bacchides returns to Judea (1-4)
Judas's last battle (5-22)
Jonathan is chosen to replace Judas as leader (23-35)
Jonathan and Simon massacre a wedding party (36-42)
Jonathan and his friends kill 1000 of Bachides's soldiers (43-49)
Alcimus destroyed the works of the prophets (so God killed him) (50-57)
Jonathan and Bacchides make peace (and kill all the wicked people) (58-73)
10 Demetrius's letter to Jonathan (1-14)
Alexander's letter to Jonathan (15-21)
Demetrius's second letter (22-47)
The death of Demetrius (48-50)
Ptolemee gives his daughter Cleopatra to Alexandra (51-58)
Jonathan is clothed in purple (59-66)
Jonathan and Simon burn to death 8000 (67-89)
11 Ptlolemee comes to Syria (1-19)
Letters between Demetrius and Jonathan (20-46)
The Jews kill 100,000 men in one day (47-74)
12 A trip to Rome and letters to Sparta (1-23)
Jonathan is captured (24-54)
The death of Jonathan (12-30)
Another letter and some psalm singing (31-54)
14 Every man sat under his vine and fig tree (1-15)
Letters to Rome and Sparta (16-34)
Simon was clothed in purple and gold (35-49)
16 Simon's sons burn 2000 men to death (1-10)
Simon and his sons, Judas and Mathathias, are killed (11-24)
