2 Maccabees 12:33

2 Maccabees 12:33 Context

³¹They gaue them thankes, desiring them to be friendly stil vnto them, and so they came to Ierusalem, the feast of the weekes approching. ³²And after the feast called Pentecost, they went foorth against Gorgias the gouernour of Idumea, ³³Who came out [wt] three thousand men of foot, & foure hundred horsemen. ³⁴And it happened that in their fighting together, a few of the Iewes were slaine. ³⁵At which time Dositheus one of Bacenors company, who was on horsbacke, and a strong man, was still vpon Gorgias, and taking hold of his coate, drew him by force, and when he would haue taken that cursed man aliue, a horseman of Thracia comming vpon him, smote off his shoulder, so that Gorgias fled vnto Marisa.

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