1 Maccabees 6:29

1 Maccabees 6:29 Context

²⁷Wherefore if thou doest not preuent them quickly, they wil doe greater things then these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them. ²⁸Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his friends, and the captaines of his armie, and those that had charge of the horse. ²⁹There came also vnto him from other kingdomes, and from Isles of the Sea bands of hired souldiers. ³⁰So that the number of his armie was an hundred thousand foote men, and twentie thousand horsemen, and two and thirty Elephants exercised in battell. ³¹These went through Idumea, and pitched against Bethsura which they assaulted many daies, making engines of warre: but they [of Bethsura] came out, and burnt them with fire, and fought valiantly.

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