## The Book of Maccabees I Chapter 7

###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:1
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:1](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:1)

ויהי בשנת מאה וחמישים ואחת ויצא דימיטריוס בן סליקוס מרומא וילכוד במתי מעט עיר על שפת הים וימלוך שם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
In the hundred and one and fiftieth year Demetrius the son of Seleucus departed from Rome, and came up with a few men unto a city of the sea coast, and reigned there.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:2
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:2](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:2)

ויהי בבואו אל הבירה ואל בית אבותיו, ויאחזו אנשיו את אנטיוכוס ואת ליזיאש להסגירם ביד דימיטריוס.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And as he entered into the palace of his ancestors, so it was, that his forces had taken Antiochus and Lysias, to bring them unto him.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:3
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:3](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:3)

וישמע המלך ויקרא: הסירו אותם מעל פני, ויפגעו בם אנשיו וימותו. וישוב דימיטריוס על כסא מלכותו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore, when he knew it, he said, Let me not see their faces. 4 So his host slew them. Now when Demetrius was set upon the throne of his kingdom,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:4
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:4](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:4)

ויקבצו אליו כל הפוחזים והבוגדים בישראל, ואליקים בראשם, והוא נכסוף נכסף אל משמרת הכהונה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
There came unto him all the wicked and ungodly men of Israel, having Alcimus, who was desirous to be high priest, for their captain:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:5
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:5](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:5)

ויצעקו חמס על יהודה ועל עמו, ויאמרו אל המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And they accused the people to the king, saying,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:6
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:6](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:6)

הנה יהודה ואחיו המיתו כל אוהביך, ואותנו גרשו מן הארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Judas and his brethren have slain all thy friends, and driven us out of our own land.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:7
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:7](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:7)

ועתה שלח נא איש אשר בטחתה בו, לראות את הרע אשר עשו לנו ולארצך, ולייסרם ואת כל עדתם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now therefore send some man whom thou trustest, and let him go and see what havock he hath made among us, and in the king’s land, and let him punish them with all them that aid them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:8
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:8](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:8)

ויבחר המלך באחד מרעיו ושמו בכחידס, הרודה בעבר הנהר, כי בטח בו המלך ושמו אדיר בארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then the king chose Bacchides, a friend of the king, who ruled beyond the flood, and was a great man in the kingdom, and faithful to the king,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:9
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:9](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:9)

וישלח אתו את הבוגד אליקים, וימלא את ידיו לכהן, ויצווהו לעשות שפטים בבני ישראל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And him he sent with that wicked Alcimus, whom he made high priest, and commanded that he should take vengeance of the children of Israel.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:10
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:10](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:10)

ויסעו בחיל גדול אל ארץ יהודה, וישלחו מלאכים אל יהודה ואל אחיו ודברי שלום בפיהם למען התעותם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So they departed, and came with a great power into the land of Judea, where they sent messengers to Judas and his brethren with peaceable words deceitfully.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:11
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:11](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:11)

ויהודה ראה כי חיל גדול בעקבם, ויכר כי עורמה בפיהם ולא האמין להם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But they gave no heed to their words; for they saw that they were come with a great power.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:12
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:12](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:12)

ועדת סופרים התקבצו אל אליקים ואל בכחידס לדבר אתם במישרים ונלוו אליהם החסידים ראשי בני ישראל לשאול להם לשלום.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then did there assemble unto Alcimus and Bacchides a company of scribes, to require justice. Now the Assideans were the first among the children of Israel that sought peace of them:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:13
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:13](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:13)

כי אמרו בלבם הלא אליקים כהן הוא, מזרע אהרן אשר בא עם החיל הזה, ובגוד לא יבגוד באחיו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
For said they, One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come with this army, and he will do us no wrong.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:14
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:14](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:14)

וידבר אליקים להם לשלום וישבע לאמור, חי ה' אם אשקר לכם לעשות עמכם כל רע.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So he spake unto them, peaceably, and sware unto them, saying, we will procure the harm neither of you nor your friends.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:15
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:15](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:15)

ויהי כי האמינו לשבועתו, ויאחז ששים איש מהם וישחטם ביום אחד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Whereupon they believed him: howbeit he took of them threescore men, and slew them in one day,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:16
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:16](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:16)

ככתוב בשר חסידיך לחיתו ארץ, שפכו דמם כמים סביבות ירושלים ואין קובר.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
according to the words which he wrote, The flesh of thy saints have they cast out, and their blood have they shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:17
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:17](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:17)

ויחרד כל העם חרדה גדולה עד מאוד, ויילילו ויאמרו הלא אין אמון בם כי הפרו את הברית ואת השבועה אשר נשבעו לנו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Wherefore the fear and dread of them fell upon all the people, who said, There is neither truth nor righteousness in them; for they have broken the covenant and oath that they made.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:18
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:18](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:18)

ויפן בכחידס מירושלים ויחן על בית סוכו וישלח בכל הארץ מסביב לאחוז את האנשים אשר נמלטו מידו וישחטם וישליכם אל הפחת.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
After this, removed Bacchides from Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bezeth, where he sent and took many of the men that had forsaken him, and certain of the people also, and when he had slain them, he cast them into the great pit.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:19
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:19](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:19)

ואחרי כן הפקיד את אליקים על הארץ ויעזוב אנשים אתו לעזור לו וישב אל המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then committed he the country to Alcimus, and left with him a power to aid him: so Bacchides went to the king.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:20
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:20](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:20)

ואליקים נלחם בעד הכהונה הגדולה, ויתקבצו אליו כל עוכרי ישראל ותכבד ידם על ארץ יהודה וירושלים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But Alcimus contended for the high priesthood. And unto him resorted all such as troubled the people, who, after they had gotten the land of Juda into their power, did much hurt in Israel.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:21
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:21](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:21)

וירא יהודה את אליקים ועדתו כי ירעו עוד מן הגויים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now when Judas saw all the mischief that Alcimus and his company had done among the Israelites, even above the heathen,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:22
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:22](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:22)

ויקום ויעבור בכל גבולי יהודה, וינקם בכל הפושעים, ויעצרו משוט בארץ.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
He went out into all the coasts of Judea round about, and took vengeance of them that had revolted from him, so that they durst no more go forth into the country.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:23
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:23](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:23)

ויהי כראות אליקים את יהודה ואת עמו כי שגבו ממנו, ואין לאל ידו להתייצב לפניהם, וישב וילך אל המלך ויצעק חמס עליהם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
On the other side, when Alcimus saw that Judas and his company had gotten the upper hand, and knew that he was not able to abide their force, he went again to the king, and said all the worst of them that he could.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:24
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:24](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:24)

וישלח המלך את ראש כל שריו את נקנור, והוא שונא את ישראל מאוד, ויצוהו להשמיד ולאבד את כל העם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then the king sent Nicanor, one of his honourable princes, a man that bare deadly hate unto Israel, with commandment to destroy the people.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:25
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:25](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:25)

וייסע נקנור בחיל כבד ירושלימה, וישלח במרמה מלאכים אל יהודה ואל אחיו ודברי שלום בפיהם לאמור.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So Nicanor came to Jerusalem with a great force; and sent unto Judas and his brethren deceitfully with friendly words, saying,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:26
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:26](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:26)

אל נא תהי מריבה ביני וביניכם לכן במתי מעט אבוא אליכם ונדברה יחד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Let there be no battle between me and you; I will come with a few men, that I may see you in peace.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:27
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:27](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:27)

ויבוא אל יהודה וישאלו איש את אחיו לשלום, והאויב ארב במארב לתפשו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
He came therefore to Judas, and they saluted one another peaceably. Howbeit the enemies were prepared to take away Judas by violence.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:28
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:28](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:28)

ויוגד ליהודה כי בא אליו נקנור בצדיה, ויירא מפניו וימאן לראותו עוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Which thing after it was known to Judas, to wit, that he came unto him with deceit, he was sore afraid of him, and would see his face no more.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:29
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:29](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:29)

וירא נקנור כי נודעה עקבתו, ויצא בחרב לקראת יהודה על יד כפר שלמה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Nicanor also, when he saw that his counsel was discovered, went out to fight against Judas beside Capharsalama:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:30
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:30](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:30)

וינגף חיל נקנור לפניו ויפלו כחמשת אלפים איש במגפה ההיא והנשארים נמלטו אל עיר דוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Where there were slain of Nicanor’s side about five thousand men, and the rest fled into the city of David.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:31
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:31](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:31)

ויהי אחר הדברים האלה ויעל נקנור על הר (הבית?) ויצאו מן הכוהנים ומזקני העם לקראתו ויאספוהו בטוב לב הביתה ויראוהו את הקורבנות אשר הקריבו בעד שלום המלך.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
After this went Nicanor up to mount Sion, and there came out of the sanctuary certain of the priests and certain of the elders of the people, to salute him peaceably, and to shew him the burnt sacrifice that was offered for the king.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:32
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:32](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:32)

ויתעלל בהם נקנור ויצחק ויגאל אותם וידבר אתם קשות.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spake proudly,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:33
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:33](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:33)

וישבע שבועה לאמור: אם לא תסגירו את יהודה ואת אנשיו בידי שרוף אשרוף את הבית הזה בשובי בשלום וילך בחרי אף.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:34
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:34](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:34)

וישובו הכוהנים ויגשו אל מזבח ה' וישאו את קולם בבכי ויאמרו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:35
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:35](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:35)

ה' אלוהים יען אשר רצית בבית הזה להיקרא בו שמך הגדול והוא בית תפלה לעמך ישראל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:36
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:36](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:36)

אנא אנא ה' נקום נקמתך באיש הזה ובחילו זכור את חרפתם אשר חרפוך והפל אותם בחרב לבל יקומון עוד.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:37
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:37](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:37)

ויפן נקנור מירושלים ויחן על בית חורון וחיל ארם בא לעזרתו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:38
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:38](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:38)

ויסע יהודה את מחנהו על יד חדשה ופקודיו שלושת אלפים איש ויתפלל אל ה' ויאמר:

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:39
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:39](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:39)

ה' אלוהים עת חרפוך שלוחי סנחריב, שלחת את מלאכך ויך בחילו מאה ושמונים וחמשה אלף.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine angel went out, and smote an hundred fourscore and five thousand of them.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:40
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:40](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:40)

שלח נא גם היום את מגפתך על החיל הזה לעינינו למען ידעו כל הגויים כי אנפת בם עקב אשר חרפו את משכן כבודך וכי שפטת אותם כפי רשעתם.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Even so destroy thou this host before us this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy sanctuary, and judge thou him according to his wickedness.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:41
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:41](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:41)

ויהי ביום שלושה עשר לחודש אדר ויערכו מלחמה, ויינגף חיל נקנור, והוא נפל ראשונה במערכה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
So the thirteenth day of the month Adar the hosts joined battle: but Nicanor’s host was discomfited, and he himself was first slain in the battle.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:42
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:42](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:42)

וירא העם כי נפל שר צבאם, וישליכו את הנשק וינוסו.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Now when Nicanor’s host saw that he was slain, they cast away their weapons, and fled.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:43
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:43](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:43)

וירדוף יהודה אחריהם דרך יום אחד מחדשה ועד גזר, ויריעו בחצוצרות אחריהם לתת אות לבני ישראל.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Then they pursued after them a day’s journey, from Adasa unto Gazera, sounding an alarm after them with their trumpets.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:44
[The Book of Maccabees I 7:44](https://torahapp.org/share/book/The%20Book%20of%20Maccabees%20I/r/7:44)

ויצאו מכל חוות ארץ יהודה מסביב ויפלו עליהם. ויהי בפנות האויב לקראתם, ויפלו כולם בחרב עד לא נשאר שריד ופליט.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Whereupon they came forth out of all the towns of Judea round about, and closed them in; so that they, turning back upon them that pursued them, were all slain with the sword, and not one of them was left.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:45
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ויעט העם אל השלל, ויכרתו את ראש נקנור ואת ידו הימנית אשר נשא בגאון לבבו, ויוקיעום בירושלים.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Afterwards they took the spoils, and the prey, and smote off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so proudly, and brought them away, and hanged them up toward Jerusalem.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:46
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ותחי רוח העם ויחוגו את היום ההוא בשמחה גדולה, ויצוו לחוג את יום השלושה עשר לחודש אדר מימים ימימה.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
For this cause the people rejoiced greatly, and they kept that day a day of great gladness. Moreover they ordained to keep yearly this day, being the thirteenth of Adar.


###### The Book of Maccabees I 7:47
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ותשקוט ארץ יהודה ימים מספר.

**Brenton's Septuagint -- updated:**
Thus the land of Juda was in rest a little while.