1 Maccabees 7:40

1 Maccabees 7:40 Context

³⁸Be auenged of this man and his hoste, and let them fall by the sword: Remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer. ³⁹So Nicanor went out of Ierusalem, & pitched his tents in Bethoron, where an hoste out of Syria met him. ⁴⁰But Iudas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying, ⁴¹O Lord, when they that were sent from the king of the Assyrians blasphemed, thine Angel went out, and smote a hundred, fourescore, and fiue thousand of them. ⁴²Euen so destroy thou this host before vs this day, that the rest may know that he hath spoken blasphemously against thy Sanctuary, and iudge thou him according to his wickednesse.

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