2 Maccabees 12:27-29
Revised Standard Version
27 After the rout and destruction of these, he marched also against Ephron, a fortified city where Lys′ias dwelt with multitudes of people of all nationalities.[a] Stalwart young men took their stand before the walls and made a vigorous defense; and great stores of war engines and missiles were there. 28 But the Jews[b] called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it.
29 Setting out from there, they hastened to Scythop′olis, which is seventy-five miles[c] from Jerusalem.
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- 2 Maccabees 12:27 The Greek text of this sentence is uncertain
- 2 Maccabees 12:28 Gk they
- 2 Maccabees 12:29 Gk six hundred stadia
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