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These anticipated the beast wherever it was; and wherever it moved, they moved too and never left it. (1 Maccabees 6, 36)
He ran right under the elephant and stabbed it in the belly, killing it. The beast fell to the ground on top of him, and he died there. (1 Maccabees 6, 46)
When his men saw the great number of the troops, they were very much afraid, and many slipped away from the camp, until only eight hundred men remained. (1 Maccabees 9, 6)
When Apollonius heard of it, he drew up three thousand horsemen and an innumerable infantry. He marched on Azotus as though he were going on through the country, but at the same time he advanced into the plain, because he had such a large number of horsemen to rely on. (1 Maccabees 10, 77)
Whereas certain villains have gained control of the kingdom of my ancestors, I intend to reclaim it, that I may restore it to its former state. I have recruited a large number of mercenary troops and equipped warships (1 Maccabees 15, 3)
He returned with the royal commission, but with nothing that made him worthy of the high priesthood; he had the temper of a cruel tyrant and the rage of a wild beast. (2 Maccabees 4, 25)
Many sacrilegious thefts had been committed by Lysimachus in the city with the connivance of Menelaus. When word was spread that a large number of gold vessels had been stolen, the people assembled in protest against Lysimachus. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
In the space of three days, eighty thousand were lost, forty thousand meeting a violent death, and the same number being sold into slavery. (2 Maccabees 5, 14)
All those who came out to watch, he massacred, and running through the city with armed men, he cut down a large number of people. (2 Maccabees 5, 26)
Coming unexpectedly upon towns and villages, he would set them on fire. He captured strategic positions, and put to flight a large number of the enemy. (2 Maccabees 8, 6)
Maccabeus assembled his men, six thousand strong, and exhorted them not to be panic-stricken before the enemy, nor to fear the large number of the Gentiles attacking them unjustly, but to fight courageously, (2 Maccabees 8, 16)
But some of the men in Simon's force who were money lovers let themselves be bribed by some of the men in the towers; on receiving seventy thousand drachmas, they allowed a number of them to escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
