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These animals were distributed among the phalanxes, to each elephant being allocated a thousand men dressed in coats of mail with bronze helmets on their heads; five hundred picked horsemen were also assigned to each beast. (1 Maccabees 6, 35)
The remainder of the cavalry was stationed on one or other of the two flanks of the army, to harass the enemy and cover the phalanxes. (1 Maccabees 6, 38)
Boldly charging towards the creature through the thick of the phalanx, dealing death to right and left, so that the enemy scattered on either side at his onslaught, (1 Maccabees 6, 45)
Nicanor then realised that his plan had been discovered, and took the field against Judas, to give battle near Caphar-Salama. (1 Maccabees 7, 31)
Bacchides was on the right wing. The phalanx advanced from between the two squadrons, sounding the trumpets; the men on Judas' side also blew their trumpets, (1 Maccabees 9, 12)
Simon sent his own troops into attack against the phalanx, which he cut to pieces and routed. (1 Maccabees 10, 82)
The king took refuge in the palace, while the citizens occupied the thoroughfares of the city and began to attack. (1 Maccabees 11, 46)
Now, I urge anyone who may read this book not to be dismayed at these calamities, but to reflect that such visitations are intended not to destroy our race but to discipline it. (2 Maccabees 6, 12)
that time in Babylonia when in the battle with the Galatians the Jewish combatants numbered only eight thousand, with four thousand Macedonians, yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand had destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand, thanks to the help they had received from Heaven, and had taken great booty as a result. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
He who only a little while before had thought in his superhuman boastfulness he could command the waves of the sea, he who had imagined he could weigh mountain peaks in a balance, found himself flat on the ground and then being carried in a litter, a visible demonstration to all of the power of God, (2 Maccabees 9, 8)
Not that I despair of my condition, for I have great hope of shaking off the malady, (2 Maccabees 9, 22)
Those left behind in the city felt a similar anxiety, alarmed as they were about the forthcoming encounter in the open country. (2 Maccabees 15, 19)
