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2 Maccabees 8:20-22
Common English Bible
2 Maccabees 8:20-22
Common English Bible
20 or the battle with the Galatians in Babylonia. A total of eight thousand Jewish troops went into action along with four thousand Macedonians, who got into severe difficulty, yet the eight thousand Jewish forces, with the assistance they received from heaven, killed one hundred twenty thousand of the enemy and took the spoils of war.
21 With such words he so encouraged them that they were prepared to die for their laws and homeland. He divided the army into four parts and 22 appointed his brothers as commanders of each unit. Simon, Joseph, and Jonathan each commanded fifteen hundred men,
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