Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.

Because they were afraid to be deprived of the law, and of their country, and of the holy temple: and that he would not suffer the people, that had of late taken breath for a little while, to be again in subjection to blasphemous nations.

2 Maccabees 13:9
But the king, with his mind full of rage, came on to shew himself worse to the Jews than his father was.

2 Maccabees 13:10
Which when Judas understood, he commanded the people to call upon the Lord day and night, that as he had always done, so now also he would help them:

2 Maccabees 13:12
So when they had all done this together, and had craved mercy of the Lord with weeping and fasting, lying prostrate on the ground for three days continually, Judas exhorted them to make themselves ready.

2 Maccabees 13:13
But he, with the ancients, determined before the king should bring his army into Judea, and make himself master of the city, to go out, and to commit the event of the thing to the judgment of the Lord.