2 Maccabees 12:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ Now when Timotheus had knowledge of the coming of Judas, he sent the women and children, and the other baggage before him into a fortress, called Carnion: for it was impregnable and hard to come at, by reason of the straitness of the places.

²² But when the first band of Judas came in sight, the enemies were struck with fear, by the presence of God, who seeth all things, and they were put to flight one from another, so that they were often thrown down by their own companions, and wounded with the strokes of their own swords.

²³ But Judas was vehemently earnest in punishing the profane, of whom he slew thirty thousand men.