The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 11 1 – And the king of Egypt gathered together an army, like the sand that lieth upon the sea shore, and many ships: and he sought to get the kingdom of Alexander […]

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 10 1 – Now in the hundred and sixtieth year Alexander the son of Antiochus, surnamed the Illustrious, came up and took Ptolemais, and they received him, and he reigned there. 2 –

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 9 1 – In the mean time when Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army were fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea; and the right wing of his

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 8 1 – Now Judas heard of the fame of the Romans, that they are powerful and strong, and willingly agree to all things that are requested of them: and that whosoever have

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 7 1 – In the hundred and fifty-first year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from the city of Rome, and came up with a few men into a city of the sea

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 6 1 – Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold. 2 –

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 5 1 – Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up as before, that they were exceeding angry. 2 – And

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 4 1 – Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen: and they removed out of the camp by night. 2 – That they might come upon the

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 3 1 – Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead. 2 – And all his brethren helped him, and all they that had joined themselves to his father, and

The First Book of the Maccabees Chapter 2 1 – In those days arose Mathathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and he abode in the mountain of Modin.