2 Maccabees 10:23
“And hauing good successe with his weapons in all things hee tooke in hand, hee slew in the two holdes, more then twentie thousand.”
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2 Maccabees 10:23 Context
21But when it was told Maccabeus what was done, hee called the gouernours of the people together, and accused those men, that they had sold their brethren for money, & let their enemies free to fight against them. 22So he slew those that were found traitors, and immediatly tooke the two castles. 23And hauing good successe with his weapons in all things hee tooke in hand, hee slew in the two holdes, more then twentie thousand. 24Now Timotheus whom the Iewes had ouercome before, when he had gathered a great multitude of forraine forces, and horses out of Asia not a few, came as though hee would take Iewrie by force of armes. 25But when hee drew neere, they that were with Maccabeus, turned themselues to pray vnto God, and sprinckled earth vpon their heads, and girded their loynes with sackcloth,
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And having good success with his weapons in all things he took in hand, he slew in the two holds more than twenty thousand.
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