1 Maccabees 9:5

1 Maccabees 9:5 Context

³Also the first moneth of the hundred fiftie and second yeere, they encamped before Ierusalem. ⁴From whence they remoued and went to Berea, with twentie thousand footmen, and two thousand horsemen. ⁵Now Iudas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him. ⁶Who seeing the multitude of the other army to be so great, were sore afraide, whereupon many conueyed themselues out of the hoste, insomuch as there abode of them no moe but eight hundred men. ⁷When Iudas therefore saw that his hoste slipt away, and that the battell pressed vpon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed for that he had no time to gather them together.

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