2714 verses about Death

her vessels of glory are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in her streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.

Wherefore should we live any longer?

And Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned exceedingly.

saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you⌃ put us to death without trial.

And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand souls.

And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.

And one said to another, If we all do as our kindred have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.

And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let us fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our kindred died in the secret places.

And the days of Mattathias drew near that he should die, and he said to his sons, Now have pride and rebuke gotten strength, and a season of overthrow, and wrath of indignation.

To-day he shall be lifted up, and to-morrow he shall in no wise be found, because he is returned to his dust, and his thought is perished.

And he blessed them, and was gathered to his fathers.

And he died in the hundred and forty and sixth year, and his sons buried him in the sepulchres of his fathers at Modin, and all Israel made great lamentation for him.

And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.

for it is better for us to die in battle, than to look upon the evils of our nation and the holy place.

But all the hindmost fell by the sword: and they pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumaea and Azotus and Jamnia, and there fell of them about three thousand men.

And they joined battle; and there fell of the army of Lysias about five thousand men, and they fell down near them.

But when Lysias saw that his array was put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he removed to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come again into Judea with even a greater company.

And they took counsel to destroy the race of Jacob that was in the midst of them, and they began to kill and destroy among the people.

And they were shut up by him in the towers; and he encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned with fire the towers of the place, with all that were therein.

And all our kindred that were in the land of Tubias have been put to death; and they have carried into captivity their wives and their children and their stuff; and they destroyed there about a thousand men.

and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over those who were slain.

And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued to the borders of Judea; and there fell on that day of the people of Israel about two thousand men.

In that day certain priests, desiring to do exploits there, were slain in battle, when as he went out to battle unadvisedly.

And it came to pass, when the king heard these words, he was astonished and moved exceedingly: and he laid him down upon his bed, and fell sick for grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

And he was there many days, because great grief was renewed upon him, and he made account that he should die.

And he called for all his Friends, and said to them, Sleep departs from my eyes, and my heart fails for care.

I percieve that on this account these evils are come upon me, and, behold, I perish through great grief in a strange land.

And king Antiochus died there in the hundred and forty and ninth year.

And Lysias knew that the king was dead, and he set up Antiochus his son to reign, whom he had nourished up being young, and he called his name Eupator.

And he crept under the elephant, and thrust him from beneath, and killed him; and the elephant fell to the earth upon him, and he died there.

And the army killed them. And Demetrius sat upon the throne of his kingdom.

And they gave him credence: and he laid hands on threescore men of them, and killed them in one day, according to the word which the psalmist wrote,

The flesh of your saints did they cast out, And their blood did they shed round about Jerusalem; And there was no man to bury them.

And Bacchides removed from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bezeth; and he sent and took away many of the deserters that were with him, and certain of the people, and he killed them, and cast them into the great pit.

and there fell of Nicanor’s side about five hundred men, and they fled into the city of David.

take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.

And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.

Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled.

And they came forth out of all the villages of Judea round about, and closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.

and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and plundered them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and plundered them, and brought them into bondage to this day:

And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them:

And Judas said, let it not be so that I should do this thing, to flee from them: and if our time is come, let us die manfully for our kindred’s sake, and not leave a cause of reproach against our glory.

and the battle waxed sore, and many on both parts fell wounded to death.

And Judas fell, and the rest fled.

And Jonathan and Simon took Judas their brother, and buried him in the sepulchre of his fathers at Modin.

And they bewailed him, and all Israel made great lamentation for him, and mourned many days, and said,

How is the mighty fallen, the savior of Israel!

And the rest of the acts of Judas, and his wars, and the valiant deeds which he did, and his greatness, they are not written; for they were exceeding many.

And it came to pass after the death of Judas, that the lawless put forth their heads in all the coasts of Israel, and all those who wrought iniquity rose up

And they sought out and searched for the friends of Judas, and brought them to Bacchides, and he took vengeance on them, and used them despitefully.

Since your brother Judas has died, we have no man like him to go forth against our enemies and Bacchides, and among them of our nation that hate us.

And they rose up against them from their ambush, and killed them, and many fell wounded to death, and the remnant fled into the mountain, and they took all their spoils.

And the marriage was turned into mourning, and the voice of their minstrels into lamentation.

And there fell of Bacchides’ company that day about a thousand men;

and he began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give order concerning his house.

And Alcimus died at that time with great torment.

And Bacchides saw that Alcimus was dead, and he returned to the king: and the land of Judah had rest two years.

And he strengthened the battle exceedingly until the sun went down: and Demetrius fell that day.

And those who had fallen by the sword, with those who were burned, were about eight thousand men.

But when he came near to Azotus, they showed him the temple of Dagon burned with fire, and Azotus and the suburbs thereof pulled down, and the bodies cast abroad, and those who had been burned, whom he burned in the war, for they had made heaps of them in his way.

And Zabdiel the Arabian took off Alexander’s head, and sent it to Ptolemy.

And king Ptolemy died the third day after, and those who were in his strongholds were slain by those who were in the strongholds.

And the king called the Jews to help him, and they were gathered together to him all at once, and they dispersed themselves in the city, and killed that day to the number of a hundred thousand.

Now as soon as Jonathan entered into Ptolemais, they of Ptolemais shut the gates, and laid hands on him; and all those who came in with him they killed with the sword.

And they perceived that he was taken and had perished, and those who were with him; and they encouraged one another, and went on their way close together, prepared to fight.

And they all came in peace into the land of Judah, and they mourned for Jonathan, and those who were with him, and they were sore afraid; and all Israel mourned with a great mourning.

by reason hereof all my kindred have perished for Israel’s sake, and I am left alone.

And now be it far from me, that I should spare my own life in any time of affliction; for I am not better than my kindred.

and they should say, Because I sent him not the money and the children, he perished.

But when he came near to Bascama, he killed Jonathan, and he was buried there.

And Simon sent, and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him at Modin, the city of his fathers.

And all Israel made great lamentation over him, and mourned for him many days.

And Simon built a monument upon the sepulchre of his father and his kindred, and raised it aloft to the sight, with polished stone behind and before.

And he set up seven pyramids, one near another, for his father, and his mother, and his four kindred.

This is the sepulchre which he made at Modin, and it is there to this day.

But they of the citadel in Jerusalem were hindered from going forth, and from going into the country, and from buying and selling; and they hungered exceedingly, and a great number of them perished through famine.

And it was heard at Rome that Jonathan was dead, and even to Sparta, and they were exceeding sorry.

and Jonathan assembled their nation together, and became their high priest, and was gathered to his people:

And they sounded with the trumpets; and Cendebaeus and his army were put to the rout, and there fell of them many wounded to death, but those who were left fled to the stronghold:

And when Simon and his sons had drunk freely, Ptolemy and his men rose up, and took their arms, and came in upon Simon into the banqueting place, and killed him, and his two sons, and certain of his servants.

And one ran before to Gazara, and told John that his father and kindred were perished, and he has sent to kill you also.

and opening the secret door of the panelled cieling, they threw stones and struck down the prince, and they hewed him and his company in pieces, and struck off their heads, and cast them to those that were without.

But when the growing enmity between them waxed so great, that even murders were perpetrated through one of Simon’s trusted followers,

And when the king was come back again from the places in Cilicia, the Jews that were in the city pleaded before him against Andronicus (the Greeks also joining with them in hatred of the wickedness), urging that Onias had been wrongfully slain.

Antiochus therefore was heartily sorry, and was moved to pity, and wept, because of the sober and well ordered life of him that was dead;

and being inflamed with passion, forthwith he stripped off Andronicus’s purple robe, and tore off his under garments, and when he had led him round through the whole city to that very place where he had committed impiety against Onias, there he put the murderer out of the way, the Lord rendering to him the punishment he had deserved.

For which cause even certain Tyrians, moved with hatred of the wickedness, provided magnificently for their burial.

At the last therefore he met with a miserable end: having been shut up at the court of Aretas the prince of the Arabians, fleeing from city to city, pursued of all men, hated as an apostate from the laws, and held in abomination as the butcher of his country and his fellow-citizens, he was cast forth into Egypt;

and he that had driven many from their own country into strange lands perished himself in a strange land, having crossed the sea to the Lacedaemonians, as thinking to find shelter there because they were near of kin;

and he that had cast out a multitude unburied had none to mourn for him, nor had he any funeral at all, or place in the sepulchre of his fathers.

and commanded his soldiers to cut down without mercy such as came in their way, and to kill such as went up upon the houses;

and there was killing of young and old, making away of boys, women, and children, slaying of virgins and infants.

And in all the three days of the slaughter there were destroyed fourscore thousand, whereof forty thousand were slain in close combat, and no fewer were sold than slain.

he sent that lord of pollutions Apollonius with an army of two and twenty thousand, commanding him to kill all those that were of full age, and to sell the women and the younger men.

And he put to the sword all those who came forth to the spectacle; and running into the city with the armed men he killed great multitudes.

for two women were brought up for having circumcised their children; and these, when they had led them publicly round about the city, with the babes hung from their breasts, they cast down headlong from the wall.

And others, that had run together into the caves near by to keep the seventh day secretly, being betrayed to Philip were all burned together, because they scrupled to defend themselves, from regard to the honor of that most solemn day.

But he, welcoming death with renown rather than life with pollution, advanced of his own accord to the instrument of torture, but first spat forth the flesh,

coming forward as men ought to come that are resolute to repel such things as not even for the natural love of life is it lawful to taste.

that by so doing he might be delivered from death, and for his ancient friendship with them might be treated kindly.