1 Maccabees 6:45-47

Good News Translation

⁴⁵ He ran boldly toward the elephant, which was in the middle of a battalion of infantry. He rushed forward killing men to the right and left, so that the enemy soldiers fell back before him on both sides. ⁴⁶ He slipped in under the elephant and stabbed it to death, and it fell on him and killed him. ⁴⁷ But when the Jews realized how strong the royal army was and how determined it was to fight, they retreated.