They took captive the women and children and seized the livestock.

Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled; she became a dwelling of strangers; she became strange to her offspring, and her children forsook her.

According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised

So they attacked them on the Sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and livestock, to the number of a thousand persons.

Now, my children, show zeal for the law and give your lives for the covenant of our ancestors.

My children, be courageous and grow strong in the law, for by it you will gain honor.

They come against us in great insolence and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children and to despoil us,

Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness; not one of her children went in or out. The sanctuary was trampled down, and strangers held the citadel; it was a lodging place for the nations. Joy was taken from Jacob; the flute and the harp ceased to play.

and all our kindred who were in the land of Tobias have been killed; the enemy have captured their wives and children and goods and have destroyed about a thousand persons there.”

Then he took the Jews of Galilee and Arbatta, with their wives and children, and all they possessed and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.

The Return to Jerusalem

Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites in Gilead, the small and the great, with their wives and children and goods, a very large company, to go to the land of Judah.

but this became known to them, and they sent a general against the Greeks and attacked them. Many of them were wounded and fell, and the Romans took captive their wives and children; they plundered them, conquered the land, tore down their strongholds, and enslaved them to this day.

But I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, for all the nations have gathered together out of hatred to destroy us.”

The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes torn, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them;