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
The man whom king Antiochus had sent, who compelled them to sacrifice, he [Mathathias] slew at the same time ... And shewed zeal for the law, as Phinees [Phinehas] did. 2:25
Mathathias and his friends ... slew the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in their indignation. 2:39
Mathathias and his friends ... circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised. 2:45
They ... put on haircloth, and put ashes upon their heads: and they rent their garments. 3:47
When Antiochus was come in: and opening a secret entrance of the temple, they cast stones and slew the leader, and them that were with him, and hewed them in pieces, and cutting off their heads they threw them forth. 1:16
Blessed be God in all things, who hath delivered up the wicked. 1:17
The women, girded with haircloth about their breasts, came together in the streets. 3:19
Through the whole city of Jerusalem for the space of forty days there were seen horsemen running in the air. 5:2
The temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. 6:4
He [Judas Machabeus] ... killed more than 20,000 of those who were with Timotheus and Bacchides. 8:6
God ... struck him with an incurable and an invisible plague. 9:5
Worms swarmed out of the body of this man, and whilst he lived in sorrow and pain, his flesh fell off, and the filthiness of his smell was noisome. 9:9
He [Antiochus IV] himself could not now abide his own stench. 9:12
But Machabeus and they that were with him, when he drew near, prayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads and girding their loins with haircloth. 10:25
There appeared to the enemies from heaven five men upon horses, comely with golden bridles, conducting the Jews. 10:29
Others ... went to set fire to the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive. 10:36
There appeared at Jerusalem a horseman going before them in white clothing, with golden armour, shaking a spear. 11:8
So they went on courageously, having a helper from Heaven ... They attacked the enemy like lions, killing 11,000 footmen, and 1600 horsemen. 11:10
And having taken the city by the will of the Lord, he made an unspeakable slaughter, so that a pool adjoining of two furlongs broad seemed to run with the blood of the slain. 12:16
Judas was vehemently earnest in punishing the profane, of whom he slew thirty thousand men. 12:23
When they had invocated the Almighty, who with his power breaketh the strength of the enemies, they took the city; and slew five and twenty thousand of them that were within. 12:28
They found under the coats of the slain some of the donaries of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbiddeth to the Jews: so that all plainly saw, that for this cause they were slain. 12:40
It is therefore a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead, that they may be loosed from sins. 12:48
Their concern was less for their wives, and children, and for their brethren, and kinsfolks: but their greatest and principal fear was for the holiness of the temple. 15:18
Thou, O Lord, who didst send thy angel ... and didst kill a hundred and eighty. 15:22
So fighting with their hands, but praying to the Lord with their hearts, they slew no less than five and thirty thousand, being greatly cheered with the presence of God. 15:27
Judas ... commanded that Nicanor's head, and his hand with the shoulder should be cut off, and carried to Jerusalem. 15:30
He commanded also, that the tongue of the wicked Nicanor, should be cut out and given by pieces to birds, and the hand of the furious man to be hanged up over against the temple. 15:33
And he hung up Nicanor's head in the top of the castle, that it might be an evident and manifest sign of the help of God. 15:35
If I have done well, and as it becometh the history, it is what I desired: but if not so perfectly, it must be pardoned me. 15:39
It is hurtful to drink always wine, or always water, but pleasant to use sometimes the one, and sometimes the other. 15:40
They walked in the midst of the flame, praising God. 3:24
Azarias standing up prayed in this manner, and opening his mouth in the midst of the fire, he said: ... thou art just in all that thou hast done to us. 3:25
The king's servants who had cast them in continued to heat the furnace with brimstone, pitch, and dry sticks ... and the fire touched them not at all. 3:49
The old men saw her [Susanna] going in every day, and walking: and they were inflamed with lust towards her. 13:8
The two elders arose, and ran to her, and said ... we are in love with thee: wherefore consent to us, and lie with us. 13:19
Daniel took pitch, and fat, and hair, and boiled them together: and he made lumps, and put them into the dragon' s mouth, and the dragon burst asunder. 14:26
The angel of the Lord took him by the top of his head, and carried him by the hair of his head, and set him in Babylon over the den. 14:35
Support the old age of thy father ... And if his understanding fail, have patience with him. 3:14
Seek not the things that are too high for thee, and search not into things above thy ability ... For it is not necessary for thee to see with thy eyes those things that are hid. 3:22
In unnecessary matters be not over curious, and in many of his works thou shalt not be inquisitive. 3:24
In nowise speak against the truth, but be ashamed of the lie of thy ignorance. 4:30
Strive for justice for thy soul, and even unto death fight for justice,. 4:33
Let not thy hand be stretched out to receive, and shut when thou shouldst give. 4:36
The priests put on haircloths, and they caused the little children to lie prostrate before the temple of the Lord, and the altar of the Lord they covered with haircloth. 4:8
They who offered the holocausts to the Lord, offered the sacrifices to the Lord girded with haircloths, and with ashes upon their head. 4:15
The children of Israel, when they saw the multitude of them, prostrated themselves upon the ground, putting ashes upon their heads. 7:4
Judith went into her oratory: and putting on haircloth, laid ashes on her head: and falling down prostrate before the Lord. 9:1
O Lord God of my father Simeon, who gavest him a sword to execute vengeance against strangers, who had defiled by their uncleanness, and uncovered the virgin unto confusion. 9:2
And who gavest their wives to be made a prey, and their daughters into captivity: and all their spoils to be divided to thy servants, who were zealous with thy zeal. 9:3
Holofernes was made merry on her occasion, and drank exceeding much wine, so much as he had never drunk in his life. 12:20
She [Judith] struck twice upon his neck, and cut off his head. 13:10
She [Judith] went out, and delivered the head of Holofernes to her maid, and bade her put it into her wallet. 13:11
Judith said: Praise ye the Lord ... by me ... he hath killed the enemy of his people. 13:17
Then she brought forth the head of Holofernes out of the wallet, and shewed it them, saying: Behold the head of Holofernes. 13:19
Blessed art thou [Judith] ... above all women upon the earth. 13:23
Blessed be the Lord ... who hath directed thee to the cutting off the head of the prince of our enemies. 13:24
God ...hath cut off the head of all the unbelievers this night by my hand. 13:27
Judith said to all the people: Hear me, my brethren, hang ye up this head upon our walls. 14:1
When the captains of them shall run to the tent of Holofernes, and shall find him without his head wallowing in his blood, fear shall fall upon them. 14:4
Then Achior seeing the power that the God of Israel had wrought, leaving the religion of the gentiles, he believed God, and circumcised the flesh of his foreskin, and was joined to the people of Israel. 14:6
They hung up the head of Holofernes upon the walls. 14:7
Vagao ... perceived no motion of one lying, he came near to the curtain, and lifting it up, and seeing the body of Holofernes, lying upon the ground, without the head, sweltering in his blood, he cried out with a loud voice, with weeping, and rent his garments. 14:13
One Hebrew woman hath made confusion in the house of king Nabuchodonosor: for behold Holofernes lieth upon the ground, and his head is not upon him. 14:16
King Sennacherib was come back, fleeing from Judea by reason of the slaughter that God had made about him for his blasphemy. 1:21
As he [Tobias] was sleeping, hot dung out of a swallow's nest fell upon his eyes, and he was made blind. 2:11
Sara daughter of Raguel ... had been given to seven husbands, and a devil named Asmodeus had killed them, at their first going in unto her. 3:7
Tobias ... went out to wash his feet, and behold a monstrous fish came up to devour him. 6:1
The angel, answering, said to him: If thou put a little piece of its heart upon coals, the smoke thereof driveth away all kind of devils, either from man or from woman, so that they come no more to them. 6:8
And the gall is good for anointing the eyes, in which there is a white speck, and they shall be cured. 6:9
The angel Raphael took the devil, and bound him in the desert of upper Egypt. 8:3
Lord, thou knowest, that not for fleshly lust do I take my sister to wife, but only for the love of posterity. 8:9
Anoint his eyes with this gall of the fish ... For be assured that his eyes shall be presently opened, and thy father shall see. 11:8
The Lord hath sent me to heal thee, and to deliver Sara thy son's wife from the devil. 12:14
I am the angel Raphael, one of the seven, who stand before the Lord. 12:15
Instead of a fountain of an ever running river, thou gavest human blood to the unjust. 11:7
They were thirsty, and they called upon thee, and water was given them out of the high rock, and a refreshment of their thirst out of the hard stone. 11:4
The wicked were judged with wrath and tormented. 11:10
Because some being deceived worshipped dumb serpents and worthless beasts, thou didst send upon them a multitude of dumb beasts for vengeance. 11:16
By what things a man sinneth, by the same also he is tormented. 11:17
Thy almighty hand ... was not unable to send upon them a multitude of bears, or fierce lions, Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes ... the very sight might kill them through fear. 11:18
Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. 1:1
The just shall shine, and shall run to and fro like sparks among the reeds. 3:7
He that rejecteth wisdom ... Their wives are foolish, and their children wicked. 3:11
Or unknown beasts of a new kind, full of rage: either breathing out a fiery vapour, or sending forth a stinking smoke, or shooting horrible sparks out of their eyes ... the very sight might kill them through fear. 11:19
Thou chastisest them that err, by little and little ... that leaving their wickedness, they may believe in thee, O Lord. 12:2
Those ancient inhabitants of thy holy land, whom thou didst abhor ... those ... eaters of men' s bowels, and devourers of blood. 12:3
Thou ... didst send wasps, forerunners of thy host, to destroy them by little and little. 12:8
They were a wicked generation, and their malice natural, and that their thought could never be changed. 12:10
The enemies of thy servants ... deserved to die. 12:20
The idol that is made by hands, is cursed, as well it, as he that made it. 14:8
To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. 14:9
To God the wicked and his wickedness are hateful alike. 14:10
The beginning of fornication is the devising of idols. 14:12
The worship of abominable idols is the cause, and the beginning and end of all evil. 14:27
