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Nay, said Judas, nothing forbids great numbers should be at the mercy of small; what matter makes it to the God of heaven, few be his soldiers or many when he grants deliverance? (1 Maccabees 3, 18)
By this, the neighbouring peoples had begun to take alarm, so formidable did Judas and his brethren appear to them, (1 Maccabees 3, 25)
and the renown of him reached the king’s court; all the world was talking of Judas and his victories. (1 Maccabees 3, 26)
Judas, then, and his brethren found that matters had gone from bad to worse; here were the enemy encamped within their frontiers; they heard, besides, what orders the king had given for the destruction and taking away of their people. (1 Maccabees 3, 42)
Thereupon Judas chose out who should be their leaders, one with a thousand, one with a hundred, one with fifty, one with ten men to follow him; (1 Maccabees 3, 55)
Now for girded loins, cried Judas, and brave hearts! By to-morrow’s light, you must engage yonder heathen, sworn enemies to us, and to the ground we hold sacred. (1 Maccabees 3, 58)
But Judas had word of it; out he went, and all his valiant company with him, to attack the main body of the king’s army at Emmaus, (1 Maccabees 4, 3)
So Gorgias, making his night attack on the camp of Judas, and finding it empty, made no doubt they had given him the slip, and fell to scouring the hill-country for them; (1 Maccabees 4, 5)
meanwhile, came day-break, and there was Judas down in the valley. True, there were but three thousand at his back, for defence and attack very ill arrayed; (1 Maccabees 4, 6)
But Judas cried to his fellows, What, would you be daunted by the numbers of them? Would you give ground before their attack? (1 Maccabees 4, 8)
and left their lines to give battle. Thereupon Judas’ men sounded with the trumpet, (1 Maccabees 4, 13)
When Judas and his army came back from the pursuit, (1 Maccabees 4, 16)
