2 Maccabees 15:29

2 Maccabees 15:29 Context

²⁷So that fighting with their hands, and praying vnto God with their hearts, they slew no lesse then thirty and fiue thousand men: for through the appearance of God, they were greatly cheered. ²⁸Now when the battell was done, returning againe with ioy, they knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harnesse. ²⁹Then they made a great shout, and a noise, praising the Almighty in their owne language: ³⁰And Iudas, who was euer the chiefe defender of the citizens both in body, and minde, and who continued his loue towards his countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanors head, and his hand, with his shoulder, & bring them to Ierusalem. ³¹So when he was there, and had called them of his nation together, and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were of the Towre,

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