1 Maccabees 4:28-30
New Catholic Bible
28 So the following year he mobilized sixty thousand picked infantry and five thousand cavalry to defeat them. 29 They marched into Idumea and encamped at Beth-zur.[a] Judas confronted them with ten thousand men, 30 and when he realized how strong their army was, he offered this prayer:
“Blessed are you, O Savior of Israel, who crushed the attack of the mighty warrior by the hand of your servant David and delivered the camp of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and of his armor-bearer. Read full chapter
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