2 Maccabees 10:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ And having good success in arms and in all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds.

²⁴ But Timotheus who before had been overcome by the Jews, having called together a multitude of foreign troops, and assembled horsemen out of Asia, came as though he would take Judea by force of arms.

²⁵ But Machabeus and they that were with him, when he drew near, prayed to the Lord, sprinkling earth upon their heads and girding their loins with haircloth,