The .x. Chapter.
1 Iudas Machabeus taketh a citie and the temple. 10 He beginneth to shewe the actes of Eupator. 16 The Iewes fight against the Idumeans. 24 Timotheus inuadeth Iurie, with whom Iudas ioyneth battell. 29 Fiue men appeare in the ayre to the helpe of the Iewes. 39 Timothi is slayne.
1 MAchabeus nowe and [unspec A] his company * 1.1 thorowe the helpe of the Lorde wan the temple and the citie againe,
2 Destroyed the aul∣ters and chappels that the heathen had buylded through the streetes,
3 Clensed the temple, * 1.2 made another aul∣ter of bricke stone, and after two yeres they offered sacrifices, set foorth the in∣cense, the lightes, and shewe bread.
4 When that was done, they fell downe flat vpon the grounde, and besought the Lord that they might come no more in∣to such trouble: but if they sinned any more against him, he him selfe to chasten them with mercie, and not to come in the handes of those aliauntes and blas∣phemous men.
5 Nowe vpon the same day that the straungers polluted the temple, it hap∣pened that on the very same day it was clensed againe: [namely] * 1.3 the twentie and fyfth day of the moneth called * 1.4Casleu.
6 They kept eyght dayes in gladnesse, like as in the feast of the tabernacles, re∣membring that not long afore they held the feast of the tabernacles vpon the mountaynes and in dennes, like beastes.
[unspec B] 7 And to the same token they bare greene bowes, braunches, & palmes, and song Psalmes before hym that had geuen them good successe to clense his place.
8 They agreed also together, and made a statute that euery yere those dayes shoulde be solemply kept of all the peo∣ple of the Iewes.
9 How Antiochus then, that was called the noble, died, it is sufficiently tolde.
10 Nowe will we speake of Eupator the sonne of that wicked Antiochus howe it happened with hym, and so with fewe wordes to comprehende the aduersitie that chaunced in the warres.
11 When he had taken in the kingdome, he made one Lysias whiche had ben cap∣tayne of the hoast in Phenices and “ 1.5 Sy∣ria, ruler ouer the matters of the realme.
12 For Ptolomi, that was called Macron, beyng a ruler for the Iewes, and speci∣ally to sit in iudgement for such wrong as was done vnto them, vndertoke to deale peaceably with them.
13 For the whiche cause he was accused of his friendes before Eupator: and when he was suspect to be a traytour, because he had left Cypres that Philometor had committed vnto him, and because he de∣parted from noble Antiochus that he was come vnto, he poysoned hym selfe, and died.
14 Now when Gorgias was gouernour [unspec C] of the same places, he toke straungers, and vndertoke oft times to warre with the Iewes.
15 Moreouer, the Idumeans that helde the strong holdes, receaued those that were dryuen from Hierusalem, and toke in hande to warre also.