1 Maccabees 6:29-31

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁹ There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of the sea hired troops.

³⁰ And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants, trained to battle.

³¹ And they went through Idumea, and approached to Bethsura, and fought many days, and they made engines: but they sallied forth and burnt them with fire, and fought manfully.