Category Archives: First Book of Machabees

Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen; and they removed out of the camp […]

Then his son Judas, called Machabeus, rose up in his stead. 2 And all his brethren helped him, and all […]

In those days arose Mathathias, the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, […]

Now it came to pass, after that Alexander the son of Philip the Macedonian, who first reigned in Greece, coming […]