2 Maccabees 12:34-36

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁴ And when they had joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews were slain.

³⁵ But Dositheus, a horseman, one of Bacenor's band, a valiant man, took hold of Gorgias: and when he would have taken him alive, a certain horseman of the Thracians came upon him, and cut off his shoulder: and so Gorgias escaped to Maresa.

³⁶ But when they that were with Esdrin had fought long, and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to be their helper, and leader of the battle: