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Chap. XIII.
Menelaus a fugitiue Iewe is put to death. 9. Antiochus with his great armie
is defeated twise, with losse of manie men. 23. Philippe rebelling, peace is
renewed. 24. And Iudas is made Lord of Ptolemais.
1 In the yeare an hundred fourtie nine Iudas vnderstood,
that Antiochus Eupator came with a multitude agaynst
Iurie,
2 and with him Lysias the procuratour, and cheefe ouer
the affayres hauing with him of footemen note an hundred tenne
thousand, & of horsemen fiue thousand, & elephants twentie
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two, chariots with hookes three hundred.
3 And Menelaus
also ioyned him selfe with them: and with much deceite besought
Antiochus, not for the weale of his contrie, but hoping
that he should be appoynted to the principalitie.
4 But the
king of kinges stirred vp Antiochus mind against the sinner, &
Lysias suggesting that he was the cause of al the euils, he commanded
(as the custome is with them) that being apprehended
he should be killed in the same place.
5 And there was in the
same place a tower of fiftie cubites, hauing an heape of ashes on
euerie side: this had a prospect steepe downe.
6 From thence
he commanded the sacrilegious person to be throwne downe
into the ashes, al thrusting him forward to death.
7 And by
such law it chanced the transgressour of the law to dye: & Menelaus
not to be put into the earth.
8 And in deede very iustly,
because he committed manie offences toward the altar of God,
the fyre and ashes wherof was holie: himself was condemned
into the death of ashes.
9 But the king furiouse in mind, came
to shew himselfe worse to the Iewes then his father.
10 Which
thinges when Iudas vnderstood, he c&obar;manded the people that
day and night they should inuocate our Lord, that as alwayes
now also he would helpe them:
11 as who were afrayed to be
depriued of the law, & their countrie, & the holie temple: and
that he would not suffer the people that had of late taken breath
a litle while, to be againe subdued to the blasphemous nations.
12 Al therfore doing it together, and crauinig mercie of our
Lord with weeping & fastinges, being prostrate for three dayes
continually, Iudas exhorted them to prepare them selues.
13 But
he with the ancients consulted, before the king should bring
his armie to Iurie, and winne the citie, to goe out, and to committe
the euent of the thing to the iudgement of our Lord.
14 Committing therfore the power and charge of al to God,
the creatour of the world, and hauing exhorted his companie
to fight manfully, and to stand euen to death for the lawes, the
temple, the citie, their countrie, and citizens: he placed his
armie about Modin.
15 And hauing geuen a signe to his companie
of note the victorie of God, with most valient yong men
piked out, by night setting vpon the kings court, in the campe
he slew foure thousand men, and the greatest of the elephants,
with them that had bene placed thereupon,
16 and he filled the
campe of the enemies with exceeding feare and perturbation,
and the thinges being prosperously atcheiued, they departed.
-- --
17 And this was done when the day appeared, the protection
of our Lord helping him.
18 But the king hauing taken a taste
of the hardines of the Iewes, attempted the difficultie of the
places by policie:
19 and he moued his campe to Bethsura,
which was a strong hold of the Iewes: but he was put to flight,
he fel, he was diminished.
20 And to them that were within
Iudas sent necessaries.
21 But one Rhodocus of the Iewes armie
vttered the secretes to the enemies, who being sought for was
apprehended, and shut vp.
22 Againe the king had talke with
them that were in Bethsura: he gaue the right hand: he tooke
it: he went away.
23 He ioyned battel with Iudas, he was ouercome.
And as he vnderstood that Phillippe rebelled at Antioch,
who was left ouer the affayres, dismayed in mynde intreating
the Iewes, and yelding vnto them, he sweareth concerning
al thinges that seemed reason, & being reconciled he
offered sacrifice, honoured the temple, and gaue hosts.
24 He
embraced Machabeus, & made him gouernor & prince from
Ptolemais euen to the Gerrenians.
25 But after, as he came to
Ptolemais the Ptolemaians tooke greuously the couenant of
amitie, being offended lest perhaps they would breake their
league.
26 Then Lysias went vp to the iudgement seate, and
declared the reason, and appeased the people, and returned to
Antioch: and in this maner the kinges iorney and returne
proceded. note
Rheims Douai [1582], THE NEVV TESTAMENT OF IESVS CHRIST, TRANSLATED FAITHFVLLY INTO ENGLISH out of the authentical Latin, according to the best corrected copies of the same, diligently conferred vvith the Greeke and other editions in diuers languages: Vvith Argvments of bookes and chapters, Annotations, and other necessarie helpes, for the better vnderstanding of the text, and specially for the discouerie of the Corrvptions of diuers late translations, and for cleering the Controversies in religion, of these daies: In the English College of Rhemes (Printed... by Iohn Fogny, RHEMES) [word count] [B09000].
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