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With one accord they all blessed the God of mercy, and found themselves filled with such courage that they were ready to lay low not men only but the fiercest beasts and walls of iron. (2 Maccabees 11, 9)
They advanced in battle order with the aid of their celestial ally, the Lord having had mercy on them. (2 Maccabees 11, 10)
Charging like lions on the enemy, they laid low eleven thousand of the infantry and sixteen hundred horsemen, and routed all the rest. (2 Maccabees 11, 11)
Of those, the majority got away, wounded and weaponless. Lysias himself escaped only by ignominious flight. (2 Maccabees 11, 12)
Now Lysias was not lacking in intelligence and, as he reflected on the reverse he had just suffered, he realised that the Hebrews were invincible because the mighty God fought for them. He therefore sent them a delegation (2 Maccabees 11, 13)
Anything requiring the king's attention I have put before him; whatever was possible, I have granted. (2 Maccabees 11, 18)
As regards the details, I have given orders for your envoys and my own officials to discuss these with you. (2 Maccabees 11, 20)
May you prosper. 'The twenty-fourth day of Dioscorus, in the year one hundred and forty-eight.' (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
Accordingly, since we intend this people to be free from vexation like any other, our ruling is that the Temple be restored to them and that they conduct their affairs according to the customs of their ancestors. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
'It will therefore be your concern to send them a mission of friendship, so that on learning our policy they may have confidence and happily go about their business.' (2 Maccabees 11, 26)
'Menelaus informs us that you wish to return home and attend to your own affairs. (2 Maccabees 11, 29)
Accordingly, all those who return before the thirtieth day of Xanthicus may rest assured that they have nothing to fear. (2 Maccabees 11, 30)
