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  • He invaded Egypt with a strong force, with chariots and elephants, and with a large fleet, (1 Maccabees 1, 17)

  • He entrusted to him half of the army, and the elephants, and gave him instructions concerning everything he wanted done. As for the inhabitants of Judea and Jerusalem, (1 Maccabees 3, 34)

  • His army numbered a hundred thousand foot-soldiers, twenty thousand cavalry, and thirty-two elephants trained for war. (1 Maccabees 6, 30)

  • They showed the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries to provoke them to fight. (1 Maccabees 6, 34)

  • Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had fought against them with a hundred and twenty elephants and with cavalry and chariots and a very great army, had been defeated by them. (1 Maccabees 8, 6)

  • Trypho captured the elephants and occupied Antioch. (1 Maccabees 11, 56)

  • He did not take God's power into account at all, but felt exultant confidence in his myriads of foot soldiers, his thousands of horsemen, and his eighty elephants. (2 Maccabees 11, 4)

  • and that with him was Lysias, his guardian, who was in charge of the government. They led a Greek army of one hundred and ten thousand foot soldiers, fifty-three hundred horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)

  • The king immediately chose Nicanor, who had been in command of the elephants, and appointed him governor of Judea. He sent him off (2 Maccabees 14, 12)

  • Everyone now awaited the decisive moment. The enemy were already drawing near with their troops drawn up in battle line, their elephants placed in strategic positions, and their cavalry stationed on the flanks. (2 Maccabees 15, 20)

  • Maccabeus, contemplating the hosts before him, their elaborate equipment, and the fierceness of their elephants, stretched out his hands toward heaven and called upon the LORD who works miracles; for he knew that it is not through arms but through the LORD'S decision that victory is won by those who deserve it. (2 Maccabees 15, 21)


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