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and the time of the battle in Babylonia against the Galatians, when only eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand routed one hundred and twenty thousand and took a great quantity of booty, because of the help they received from Heaven. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
They also challenged the forces of Timothy and Bacchides, killed more than twenty thousand of them, and captured some very high fortresses. They divided the enormous plunder, allotting half to themselves and the rest to the persecuted, to orphans, widows, and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
On the anniversary of the day on which the temple had been profaned by the Gentiles, that is, the twenty-fifth of the same month Chislev, the purification of the temple took place. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
Attacking vigorously, they gained control of the places, drove back all who manned the walls, and cut down those who opposed them, killing as many as twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
As he was successful at arms in all his undertakings, he destroyed more than twenty thousand men in the two strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
Twenty-five hundred of their foot soldiers and six hundred of their horsemen were slain. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
When the fifth day dawned, twenty young men in the army of Maccabeus, angered over such blasphemies, bravely stormed the wall and with savage fury cut down everyone they encountered. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
So he invaded Judea, and when he reached Beth-zur, a fortified place about twenty miles from Jerusalem, launched a strong attack against it. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
Farewell." The year one hundred and forty-eight, the twenty-fourth of Dioscorinthius. (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
Meanwhile, Maccabeus divided his army into cohorts, with a commander over each cohort, and went in pursuit of Timothy, who had a force of a hundred and twenty thousand foot soldiers and twenty-five hundred horsemen. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
Judas then marched to Karnion and the shrine of Atargatis, where he killed twenty-five thousand people. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
But the Jews, invoking the Sovereign who forcibly shatters the might of his enemies, got possession of the city and slaughtered twenty-five thousand of the people in it. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
