1 Maccabees 6:34
“And to the end they might prouoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes & mulberies.”
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1 Maccabees 6:34 Context
32Upon this Iudas remoued from the towre, and pitched in Bathzacharias, ouer against the kings campe. 33Then the king rising very earely marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battell, and sounded the trumpets. 34And to the end they might prouoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes & mulberies. 35Moreouer, they diuided the beasts among the armies, and for euery elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of male, and with helmets of brasse on their heads, and besides this, for euery beast were ordained fiue hundred horsemen of the best. 36These were ready at euery occasion: wheresoeuer the beast was, and whithersoeuer þe beast went, they went also, neither departed they from him.
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And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.
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