The success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven. 3:19
Trivia: Who circumcised all the uncircumcised boys they could find in Israel?
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 killsl 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)
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)
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