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and of the battle by them, which was against the Galatians in Babylonia, how, when the event had arrived and the allies of the Macedonians hesitated, though they were only six thousand in all, yet they slew one hundred and twenty thousand, because of the help provided to them from heaven; and how, for the sake of these things, very many benefits followed. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
And, among those who were fighting against them with Timothy and Bacchides, they slew more than twenty thousand, and they obtained the high fortresses, and they divided many spoils, making equal portions for the disabled, the fatherless, and the widows, and even the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
Then, on the day that the temple had been polluted by the foreigners, it happened on the same day that the purification was accomplished, on the twenty-fifth day of the month, which was Kislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
And, persevering with much force, they obtained the places, killing those they met, and cutting down in all no less than twenty thousand. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
And so, having success in arms and in all things that he took in hand, he destroyed more than twenty thousand in the two fortresses. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
Moreover, there were slain twenty thousand five hundred, along with six hundred horsemen. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
But when the fifth day began to dawn, twenty youths of those who were with Maccabeus, inflamed in soul because of the blasphemy, manfully approached to the wall, and, advancing with fierce courage, ascended it. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
Farewell. In the one hundred forty-eighth year, on the twenty-fourth day of the month of Dioscorus.” (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
Truly, those of Joppa were also perpetrators of very shameful acts. They asked the Jews, who lived among them, to go up into small boats, which they had prepared, with their wives and sons, as if no underlying hostility was between them. (2 Maccabees 12, 3)
And Maccabeus, having positioned six thousand men around him and having divided them into cohorts, went forth against Timothy, who had with him one hundred twenty thousand foot soldiers, and two thousand five hundred horsemen. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
Then Judas departed to Carnion, where he slew twenty-five thousand. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
But when they had called upon the Almighty, who with his power breaks the strength of enemies, they seized the city. And they struck down twenty-five thousand of those who were inside. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
