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Meanwhile, Judas, also called Maccabeus, and his companions, would enter secretly into the villages, call their relatives, summon those who had remained faithful to Judaism, and finally they assembled about six thousand men. (2 Maccabees 8, 1)
Ptolemy at once appointed Nicanor, son of Patroclus, one of the king's first Friends, and sent him at the head of some twenty thousand men coming from all nations, with the order to wipe out all the Jews. At his side, he put Gorgias, a general of much experience in matters of war. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Nicanor intended to raise two thousand talents by the sale of Jewish slaves in order to pay for the tribute the king owed to the Romans. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
Maccabeus gathered and reorganized his troops, numbering about six thousand, and exhorted them not to fear the enemy but to fight bravely against their unjust aggressors, despite their great number. (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
He recounted to them all the occasions when God had come to help their fathers, especially when he wiped out one hundred and eighty-five thousand men under Sennacherib. (2 Maccabees 8, 19)
He also reminded them of what had happened in Babylonia, in the battle against the Galatians. On that day, eight thousand Jews fought side by side with four thousand Macedonians, and as the Macedonians were hard pressed, their Jewish allies alone killed twenty thousand of the enemies' troops with heaven's help and seized a great booty. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
With the help of the Almighty they slaughtered nine thousand enemies, wounded and crippled many, and put the rest to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 24)
Then, in an encounter with the army of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men, and took control of the fortified cities. They divided the abundant plunder into equal shares among themselves, those who had been tortured, the orphans, the widows and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
They carried on with their assaults and the place fell into their power. They repelled those who fought on the ramparts, slaughtered all who fell into their hands, and killed more than twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
At least nine thousand men took refuge in the two towers that were strongly fortified with everything they needed to withstand a prolonged siege. (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
Yet the men of Simon were tempted by greed, and let themselves be bought with the silver of those in the towers. So in exchange for sixty thousand pieces of silver, they allowed a number of them to escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
He killed more than twenty thousand men in those two towers, successfully bringing to an end the undertaking they had begun. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
