Μακκαβαῖος δὲ καὶ οἱ σὺν αὐτῷ τοῦ κυρίου προάγοντος αὐτοὺς τὸ μὲν ἱερὸν ἐκομίσαντο καὶ τὴν πόλιν
Now Maccabaeus and those with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city.
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τοὺς δὲ κατὰ τὴν ἀγορὰν βωμοὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἀλλοφύλων δεδημιουργημένους ἔτι δὲ τεμένη καθεῖλαν
And they tore down the altars that had been built by the foreigners in the marketplace, as well as the sacred precincts.
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καὶ τὸν νεὼ καθαρίσαντες ἕτερον θυσιαστήριον ἐποίησαν καὶ πυρώσαντες λίθους καὶ πῦρ ἐκ τούτων λαβόντες ἀνήνεγκαν θυσίας μετὰ διετῆ χρόνον καὶ θυμίαμα καὶ λύχνους καὶ τῶν ἄρτων τὴν πρόθεσιν ἐποιήσαντο
After cleansing the sanctuary they made another altar, and striking fire from stones they offered sacrifices after two years, and they offered incense and lamps and set out the presentation of the loaves.
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ταῦτα δὲ ποιήσαντες ἠξίωσαν τὸν κύριον πεσόντες ἐπὶ κοιλίαν μηκέτι περιπεσεῖν τοιούτοις κακοῖς ἀλλ' ἐάν ποτε καὶ ἁμάρτωσιν ὑπ' αὐτοῦ μετὰ ἐπιεικείας παιδεύεσθαι καὶ μὴ βλασφήμοις καὶ βαρβάροις ἔθνεσιν παραδίδοσθαι
When they had done these things, they fell prostrate on their bellies and begged the Lord that they might no longer fall into such evils, but that if they should ever sin, they might be disciplined by him with forbearance and not be handed over to blasphemous and barbarous nations.
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ἐν ᾗ δὲ ἡμέρᾳ ὁ νεὼς ὑπὸ ἀλλοφύλων ἐβεβηλώθη συνέβη κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ἡμέραν τὸν καθαρισμὸν γενέσθαι τοῦ ναοῦ τῇ πέμπτῃ καὶ εἰκάδι τοῦ αὐτοῦ μηνός ὅς ἐστιν Χασελευ
And on the very day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by foreigners, it happened that the purification of the temple took place, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which is Chasleu.
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καὶ μετ' εὐφροσύνης ἦγον ἡμέρας ὀκτὼ σκηνωμάτων τρόπον μνημονεύοντες ὡς πρὸ μικροῦ χρόνου τὴν τῶν σκηνῶν ἑορτὴν ἐν τοῖς ὄρεσιν καὶ ἐν τοῖς σπηλαίοις θηρίων τρόπον ἦσαν νεμόμενοι
And with gladness they kept the celebration for eight days in the manner of Booths, remembering that a little before, during the feast of Booths, they had been wandering in the mountains and caves like wild animals.
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διὸ θύρσους καὶ κλάδους ὡραίους ἔτι δὲ καὶ φοίνικας ἔχοντες ὕμνους ἀνέφερον τῷ εὐοδώσαντι καθαρισθῆναι τὸν ἑαυτοῦ τόπον
Therefore, carrying ivy-wreathed staffs and beautiful branches, and also palms, they offered hymns to the one who had prospered the purification of his own place.
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ἐδογμάτισαν δὲ μετὰ κοινοῦ προστάγματος καὶ ψηφίσματος παντὶ τῷ τῶν Ιουδαίων ἔθνει κατ' ἐνιαυτὸν ἄγειν τάσδε τὰς ἡμέρας
And by common decree and vote they enacted that the whole nation of the Jews should observe these days every year.
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καὶ τὰ μὲν τῆς Ἀντιόχου τοῦ προσαγορευθέντος Ἐπιφανοῦς τελευτῆς οὕτως εἶχεν
Such, then, was the end of Antiochus who was called Epiphanes.
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νυνὶ δὲ τὰ κατὰ τὸν Εὐπάτορα Ἀντίοχον υἱὸν δὲ τοῦ ἀσεβοῦς γενόμενον δηλώσομεν αὐτὰ συντέμνοντες τὰ συνέχοντα τῶν πολέμων κακά
But now we shall set forth the events concerning Antiochus Eupator, the son of the ungodly one, abbreviating the accumulated evils of the wars.
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οὗτος γὰρ παραλαβὼν τὴν βασιλείαν ἀνέδειξεν ἐπὶ τῶν πραγμάτων Λυσίαν τινά Κοίλης δὲ Συρίας καὶ Φοινίκης στρατηγὸν πρώταρχον
For when he took over the kingdom, he appointed a certain Lysias over affairs as the chief governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia.
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Πτολεμαῖος γὰρ ὁ καλούμενος Μάκρων τὸ δίκαιον συντηρεῖν προηγούμενος πρὸς τοὺς Ιουδαίους διὰ τὴν γεγονυῖαν εἰς αὐτοὺς ἀδικίαν ἐπειρᾶτο τὰ πρὸς αὐτοὺς εἰρηνικῶς διεξάγειν
For Ptolemy, who was called Macron, because he chose to act justly toward the Jews after the wrong done to them, attempted to conduct relations with them peaceably.
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ὅθεν κατηγορούμενος ὑπὸ τῶν φίλων πρὸς τὸν Εὐπάτορα καὶ προδότης παρ' ἕκαστα ἀκούων διὰ τὸ τὴν Κύπρον ἐμπιστευθέντα ὑπὸ τοῦ Φιλομήτορος ἐκλιπεῖν καὶ πρὸς Ἀντίοχον τὸν Ἐπιφανῆ ἀναχωρῆσαι μήτε εὐγενῆ τὴν ἐξουσίαν εὐγενίσας φαρμακεύσας ἑαυτὸν ἐξέλιπεν τὸν βίον
Because of this he was accused before Eupator by the king's Friends, and being continually called traitor because he had abandoned Cyprus, entrusted to him by Philometor, and gone over to Antiochus Epiphanes, and had not dignified his office with noble conduct, he took poison and ended his life.
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Γοργίας δὲ γενόμενος στρατηγὸς τῶν τόπων ἐξενοτρόφει καὶ παρ' ἕκαστα πρὸς τοὺς Ιουδαίους ἐπολεμοτρόφει
But Gorgias, when he became governor of the region, employed foreign soldiers and in every way kept up war against the Jews.
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ὁμοῦ δὲ τούτῳ καὶ οἱ Ιδουμαῖοι ἐγκρατεῖς ἐπικαίρων ὀχυρωμάτων ὄντες ἐγύμναζον τοὺς Ιουδαίους καὶ τοὺς φυγαδεύσαντας ἀπὸ Ιεροσολύμων προσλαβόμενοι πολεμοτροφεῖν ἐπεχείρουν
At the same time the Idumeans, who held important strongholds, harassed the Jews, and receiving those who had been driven out of Jerusalem they tried to foster war.
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οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον ποιησάμενοι λιτανείαν καὶ ἀξιώσαντες τὸν θεὸν σύμμαχον αὐτοῖς γενέσθαι ἐπὶ τὰ τῶν Ιδουμαίων ὀχυρώματα ὥρμησαν
But those around Maccabaeus, after making supplication and asking God to become their ally, rushed upon the strongholds of the Idumeans.
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οἷς καὶ προσβαλόντες εὐρώστως ἐγκρατεῖς ἐγένοντο τῶν τόπων πάντας τε τοὺς ἐπὶ τῷ τείχει μαχομένους ἠμύναντο κατέσφαζόν τε τοὺς ἐμπίπτοντας ἀνεῖλον δὲ οὐχ ἧττον τῶν δισμυρίων
Attacking them vigorously, they gained possession of the positions and beat back all those fighting on the wall, slaughtering those who fell into their hands, and they killed no fewer than twenty thousand.
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συμφυγόντων δὲ οὐκ ἔλαττον τῶν ἐνακισχιλίων εἰς δύο πύργους ὀχυροὺς εὖ μάλα καὶ πάντα τὰ πρὸς πολιορκίαν ἔχοντας
And when no fewer than nine thousand had fled together into two very strong towers, fully supplied for a siege,
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ὁ Μακκαβαῖος εἰς ἐπείγοντας τόπους ἀπολιπὼν Σιμωνα καὶ Ιωσηπον ἔτι δὲ καὶ Ζακχαῖον καὶ τοὺς σὺν αὐτῷ ἱκανοὺς πρὸς τὴν τούτων πολιορκίαν αὐτὸς ἐχωρίσθη
Maccabaeus left Simon and Joseph and also Zacchaeus, and enough men with him for the siege of these, and he himself departed for places where he was urgently needed.
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οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Σιμωνα φιλαργυρήσαντες ὑπό τινων τῶν ἐν τοῖς πύργοις ἐπείσθησαν ἀργυρίῳ ἑπτάκις δὲ μυρίας δραχμὰς λαβόντες εἴασάν τινας διαρρυῆναι
But the men with Simon, because of greed, were persuaded by some of those in the towers by means of silver, and after taking seventy thousand drachmas they let some escape.
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προσαγγελέντος δὲ τῷ Μακκαβαίῳ περὶ τοῦ γεγονότος συναγαγὼν τοὺς ἡγουμένους τοῦ λαοῦ κατηγόρησεν ὡς ἀργυρίου πέπρακαν τοὺς ἀδελφοὺς τοὺς πολεμίους κατ' αὐτῶν ἀπολύσαντες
When word of what had happened was reported to Maccabaeus, he assembled the leaders of the people and charged them with having sold their brothers for money by letting the enemy go free against them.
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τούτους μὲν οὖν προδότας γενομένους ἀπέκτεινεν καὶ παραχρῆμα τοὺς δύο πύργους κατελάβετο
So he killed these men when they had become traitors, and immediately captured the two towers.
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τοῖς δὲ ὅπλοις τὰ πάντα ἐν ταῖς χερσὶν εὐοδούμενος ἀπώλεσεν ἐν τοῖς δυσὶν ὀχυρώμασιν πλείους τῶν δισμυρίων
And prospering in everything with the weapons in his hands, he destroyed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand.
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Τιμόθεος δὲ ὁ πρότερον ἡττηθεὶς ὑπὸ τῶν Ιουδαίων συναγαγὼν ξένας δυνάμεις παμπληθεῖς καὶ τοὺς τῆς Ἀσίας γενομένους ἵππους συναθροίσας οὐκ ὀλίγους παρῆν ὡς δοριάλωτον λημψόμενος τὴν Ιουδαίαν
But Timothy, who had earlier been defeated by the Jews, gathered exceedingly numerous foreign forces and assembled not a few cavalry from Asia, and came intending to take Judea spear-won.
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οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον συνεγγίζοντος αὐτοῦ πρὸς ἱκετείαν τοῦ θεοῦ γῇ τὰς κεφαλὰς καταπάσαντες καὶ τὰς ὀσφύας σάκκοις ζώσαντες
Those around Maccabaeus, as he approached, turned to supplication before God, sprinkling dust upon their heads and girding their loins with sackcloth.
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ἐπὶ τὴν ἀπέναντι τοῦ θυσιαστηρίου κρηπῖδα προσπεσόντες ἠξίουν ἵλεως αὐτοῖς γενόμενον ἐχθρεῦσαι τοῖς ἐχθροῖς αὐτῶν καὶ ἀντικεῖσθαι τοῖς ἀντικειμένοις καθὼς ὁ νόμος διασαφεῖ
Falling upon the step in front of the altar, they begged that he would become gracious to them, be hostile to their enemies, and oppose those who opposed them, as the law declares.
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γενόμενοι δὲ ἀπὸ τῆς δεήσεως ἀναλαβόντες τὰ ὅπλα προῆγον ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ πλεῖον συνεγγίσαντες δὲ τοῖς πολεμίοις ἐφ' ἑαυτῶν ἦσαν
Then, rising from prayer and taking up their weapons, they advanced a considerable distance from the city; and when they had drawn near to the enemy, they kept to themselves.
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ἄρτι δὲ τῆς ἀνατολῆς διαχεομένης προσέβαλον ἑκάτεροι οἱ μὲν ἔγγυον ἔχοντες εὐημερίας καὶ νίκης μετὰ ἀρετῆς τὴν ἐπὶ τὸν κύριον καταφυγήν οἱ δὲ καθηγεμόνα τῶν ἀγώνων ταττόμενοι τὸν θυμόν
At daybreak, when the sunrise was just spreading, both sides joined battle: the one side having as the pledge of success and victory, together with valor, their refuge in the Lord, the other making passion the leader of their contests.
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γενομένης δὲ καρτερᾶς μάχης ἐφάνησαν τοῖς ὑπεναντίοις ἐξ οὐρανοῦ ἐφ' ἵππων χρυσοχαλίνων ἄνδρες πέντε διαπρεπεῖς καὶ ἀφηγούμενοι τῶν Ιουδαίων
When the battle became fierce, there appeared to the adversaries from heaven five splendid men on horses with golden bridles, leading the Jews.
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οἳ καὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον μέσον λαβόντες καὶ σκεπάζοντες ταῖς ἑαυτῶν πανοπλίαις ἄτρωτον διεφύλαττον εἰς δὲ τοὺς ὑπεναντίους τοξεύματα καὶ κεραυνοὺς ἐξερρίπτουν διὸ συγχυθέντες ἀορασίᾳ διεκόπτοντο ταραχῆς πεπληρωμένοι
Taking Maccabaeus into their midst and shielding him with their own armor, they kept him unharmed, while at the adversaries they hurled missiles and thunderbolts; therefore, thrown into confusion by blindness, they were cut down, filled with turmoil.
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κατεσφάγησαν δὲ δισμύριοι πρὸς τοῖς πεντακοσίοις ἱππεῖς δὲ ἑξακόσιοι
Twenty thousand five hundred were slain, and six hundred horsemen.
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αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Τιμόθεος συνέφυγεν εἰς Γαζαρα λεγόμενον ὀχύρωμα εὖ μάλα φρούριον στρατηγοῦντος ἐκεῖ Χαιρεου
Timothy himself fled to a place called Gazara, a very strong fortress, where Chaereas was commander.
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οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον ἄσμενοι περιεκάθισαν τὸ φρούριον ἡμέρας τέσσαρας
But those with Maccabaeus, rejoicing, besieged the fortress for four days.
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οἱ δὲ ἔνδον τῇ ἐρυμνότητι τοῦ τόπου πεποιθότες ὑπεράγαν ἐβλασφήμουν καὶ λόγους ἀθεμίτους προί̈εντο
Those inside, trusting in the strength of the place, blasphemed excessively and uttered unlawful words.
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ὑποφαινούσης δὲ τῆς πέμπτης ἡμέρας εἴκοσι νεανίαι τῶν περὶ τὸν Μακκαβαῖον πυρωθέντες τοῖς θυμοῖς διὰ τὰς βλασφημίας προσβαλόντες τῷ τείχει ἀρρενωδῶς καὶ θηριώδει θυμῷ τὸν ἐμπίπτοντα ἔκοπτον
As the fifth day dawned, twenty young men among those with Maccabaeus, inflamed with anger because of the blasphemies, bravely attacked the wall and with beastlike fury cut down anyone who fell before them.
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ἕτεροι δὲ ὁμοίως προσαναβάντες ἐν τῷ περισπασμῷ πρὸς τοὺς ἔνδον ἐνεπίμπρων τοὺς πύργους καὶ πυρὰς ἀνάπτοντες ζῶντας τοὺς βλασφήμους κατέκαιον οἱ δὲ τὰς πύλας διέκοπτον εἰσδεξάμενοι δὲ τὴν λοιπὴν τάξιν προκατελάβοντο τὴν πόλιν
Others likewise climbed up during the distraction and set the towers on fire, and kindling blazes burned the blasphemers alive; others broke open the gates, admitted the rest of the force, and seized the city.
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καὶ τὸν Τιμόθεον ἀποκεκρυμμένον ἔν τινι λάκκῳ κατέσφαξαν καὶ τὸν τούτου ἀδελφὸν Χαιρέαν καὶ τὸν Ἀπολλοφάνην
They slaughtered Timothy, who had been hiding in a certain cistern, and his brother Chaereas and Apollophanes.
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ταῦτα δὲ διαπραξάμενοι μεθ' ὕμνων καὶ ἐξομολογήσεων εὐλόγουν τῷ κυρίῳ τῷ μεγάλως εὐεργετοῦντι τὸν Ισραηλ καὶ τὸ νῖκος αὐτοῖς διδόντι
Having accomplished these things, with hymns and thanksgivings they blessed the Lord, who greatly acts beneficently toward Israel and gives them the victory.