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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)
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)
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)
The purification of the Temple took place on the same date on which the foreigners had profaned it, that is, on the twenty-fifth of the month of Chislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
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)
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)
Twenty thousand five hundred infantrymen and six hundred horsemen died. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
At daybreak on the fifth day, twenty young men from the troops of Maccabeus, enraged by the blasphemies they had been hearing, bravely stormed the wall and with brutal fury killed everyone who stood before them. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
May everything go well with you. In the year one hundred and forty-eight, the twenty-fourth day of the month of the Corinthian God." (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
Maccabeus then organized his army, set these two as their commanders, and rushed out against Timotheus who had twenty thousand infantrymen and two thousand five hundred horsemen with him. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
Then Judas left for Carnaim and Atargateion, and killed twenty-five thousand men there. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
After calling on the Lord almighty to crush the forces of the enemy, the Jews seized the city and killed more than twenty-five thousand of the people inside. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
