2 Maccabees 10:23-25

Wycliffe Bible

²³ Forsooth in doing all things welsomely, either by prosperity, in armours, and hands, he slew in the two strengths more than twenty thousands. (And doing everything successfully with his arms, or his weapons, taken in hand, he killed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand.)

²⁴ And Timothy (or Timotheus), that before was overcome of (or by) (the) Jews, called [or gathered] together an host of strange (or foreign) multitude, and gathered the multitude of horsemen of Asia, and came with armours, (or with arms, or weapons), as to take Judea.

²⁵ Forsooth Maccabeus, and they that were with him, when he nighed (or approached), besought God, and besprinkled the(ir) head(s) with earth, and before-girded the(ir) loins with hair-shirts,