2 Maccabees 12:26-28
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Judas Wins Other Victories
26 Then Judas[a] marched against Carnaim and the temple of Atargatis and slaughtered twenty-five thousand people.(A) 27 After the rout and destruction of these, he marched also against Ephron, a fortified town where Lysias lived with multitudes of people of all nationalities.[b] Stalwart young men took their stand before the walls and made a vigorous defense, and great stores of war engines and missiles were there.(B) 28 But the Jews[c] called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the town into their hands and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were in it.(C)
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