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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)
He went on to tell them of the times when help had been given their ancestors: both the time of Sennacherib, when a hundred and eighty-five thousand of his men were destroyed, (2 Maccabees 8, 19)
and the time of the battle in Babylonia against the Galatians, when only eight thousand Jews fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand routed one hundred and twenty thousand and took a great quantity of booty, because of the help they received from Heaven. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)
With the Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy, wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, and put all of them to flight. (2 Maccabees 8, 24)
They also challenged the forces of Timothy and Bacchides, killed more than twenty thousand of them, and captured some very high fortresses. They divided the enormous plunder, allotting half to themselves and the rest to the persecuted, to orphans, widows, and the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
The accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand slave dealers to buy the Jews, (2 Maccabees 8, 34)
Attacking vigorously, they gained control of the places, drove back all who manned the walls, and cut down those who opposed them, killing as many as twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
When at least nine thousand took refuge in two very strong towers, containing everything necessary to sustain a siege, (2 Maccabees 10, 18)
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)
As he was successful at arms in all his undertakings, he destroyed more than twenty thousand men in the two strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
mustered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and marched against the Jews. His plan was to make Jerusalem a Greek settlement; (2 Maccabees 11, 2)
Hurling themselves upon the enemy like lions, they laid low eleven thousand foot soldiers and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the rest to flight. (2 Maccabees 11, 11)
