Mathathias and his friends ... circumcised all the children whom they found in the confines of Israel that were uncircumcised. 2:45
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)
