1 Maccabees 6:29
“There came also vnto him from other kingdomes, and from Isles of the Sea bands of hired souldiers.”
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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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There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
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