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They killed the tribal chieftain on Timotheus' staff, an extremely wicked man who had done great harm to the Jews. (2 Maccabees 8, 32)
The triple-dyed scoundrel Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
Thus the man who had promised the Romans to make good their tribute money by selling the prisoners from Jerusalem, bore witness that the Jews had a defender and that they were in consequence invulnerable, since they followed the laws which that defender had ordained. (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)
Even so, he in no way diminished his arrogance; still bursting with pride, breathing fire in his wrath against the Jews, he was in the act of ordering an even keener pace when the chariot gave a sudden lurch and out he fell and, in this serious fall, was dragged along, every joint of his body wrenched out of place. (2 Maccabees 9, 7)
as for the Jews, whom he had considered as not even worth burying, so much carrion to be thrown out with their children for birds and beasts to prey on, he would give them all equal rights with the Athenians; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
Finding no respite at all from his suffering, God's just sentence having overtaken him, he abandoned all hope for himself and wrote the Jews the letter transcribed below, which takes the form of an appeal in these terms: (2 Maccabees 9, 18)
'To the excellent Jews, to the citizens, Antiochus, king and commander-in-chief, sends hearty greetings, wishing them all health and prosperity. (2 Maccabees 9, 19)
whereas Ptolemy, known as Macron, and the first person to govern the Jews justly, had done his best to govern them peacefully to make up for the wrongs inflicted on them in the past. (2 Maccabees 10, 12)
Gorgias now became general of the area; he maintained a force of mercenaries and a continual state of war with the Jews. (2 Maccabees 10, 14)
At the same time, the Idumaeans, who controlled important fortresses, were harassing the Jews, welcoming outlaws from Jerusalem and endeavouring to maintain a state of war. (2 Maccabees 10, 15)
Timotheus, who had been beaten by the Jews once before, now assembled an enormous force of mercenaries, mustering cavalry from Asia in considerable numbers, and soon appeared in Judaea, expecting to conquer it by force of arms. (2 Maccabees 10, 24)