2 Maccabees 8:22

2 Maccabees 8:22 Context

²⁰And he told them of þ^e battel that they had in Babylon with the Galatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to þ^e busines, with foure thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand, because of the helpe that they had from heauen, & so receiued a great booty. ²¹Thus when hee had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the Lawes, and the countrey, he diuided his army into foure parts: ²²And ioyned with himselfe his owne brethren, leaders of each band, to wit, Simon, and Ioseph, & Ionathan, giuing each one fifteene hundred men. ²³Also (hee appointed) Eleazar to reade the holy booke: and when he had giuen them this watchword, The help of God; himselfe leading the first band, he ioyned battell with Nicanor: ²⁴And by the helpe of the Almightie, they slew aboue nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanors hoste, and so put all to flight:

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