CHAPTER 8. Concerning Sanballat And Manasseh, And The Temple Which They
Built On Mount Gerizzim; As Also How Alexander Made His Entry Into The
City Jerusalem, And What Benefits He Bestowed On The Jews.
FOOTNOTES:
BOOK XII. Containing The Interval Of A Hundred And Seventy Years.—From
The Death Of Alexander The Great To The Death Of Judas Maccabeus.
CHAPTER 1. How Ptolemy The Son Of Lagus Took Jerusalem And Judea By
Deceit And Treachery, And Carried Many Thence, And Planted Them In
Egypt.
CHAPTER 2. How Ptolemy Philadelphus Procured The Laws Of The Jews To Be
Translated Into The Greek Tongue And Set Many Captives Free, And
Dedicated Many Gifts To God.
CHAPTER 3. How The Kings Of Asia Honored The Nation Of The Jews And Made
Them Citizens Of Those Cities Which They Built.
CHAPTER 4. How Antiochus Made A League With Ptolemy And How Onias
Provoked Ptolemy Euergetes To Anger; And How Joseph Brought All Things
Right Again, And Entered Into Friendship With Him; And What Other Things
Were Done By Joseph, And His Son Hyrcanus.
CHAPTER 5. How, Upon The Quarrels One Against Another About The High
Priesthood Antiochus Made An Expedition Against Jerusalem, Took The City
And Pillaged The Temples. And Distressed The Jews' As Also How Many Of
The Jews Forsook The Laws Of Their Country; And How The Samaritans
Followed The Customs Of The Greeks And Named Their Temple At Mount
Gerizzim The Temple Of Jupiter Hellenius.
CHAPTER 6. How, Upon Antiochus's Prohibition To The Jews To Make Use Of
The Laws Of Their Country Mattathias, The Son Of Asamoneus, Alone
Despised The King, And Overcame The Generals Of Antiochus's Army; As
Also Concerning The Death Of Mattathias, And The Succession Of Judas.
CHAPTER 7. How Judas Overthrew The Forces Of Apollonius And Seron And
Killed The Generals Of Their Armies Themselves; And How When, A Little
While Afterwards Lysias And Gorgias Were Beaten He Went Up To Jerusalem
And Purified The Temple.
CHAPTER 8. How Judas Subdued The Nations Round About; And How Simon Beat
The People Of Tyre And Ptolemais; And How Judas Overcame Timotheus, And
Forced Him To Fly Away, And Did Many Other Things After Joseph And
Azarias Had Been Beaten.
CHAPTER 9. Concerning The Death Of Antiochus Epiphane. How Antiochus
Eupator Fought Against Juda And Besieged Him In The Temple And
Afterwards Made Peace With Him And Departed; Of Alcimus And Onias.
CHAPTER 10. How Bacchides, The General Of Demetrius's Army, Made An
Expedition Against Judea, And Returned Without Success; And How Nicanor
Was Sent A Little Afterward Against Judas And Perished, Together With
His Army; As Also Concerning The Death Of Alcimus And The Succession Of
Judas.
CHAPTER 11. That Bacchides Was Again Sent Out Against Judas; And How
Judas Fell As He Was Courageously Fighting.
FOOTNOTES
BOOK XIII. Containing The Interval Of Eighty-Two Years.—From The Death
Of Judas Maccabeus To The Death Of Queen Alexandra.
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