2 Maccabees 8:20-22

New Catholic Bible

²⁰ and about the occasion of the battle in Babylon^[a] with the Galatians when the Jewish forces numbered no more than eight thousand, aided by four thousand Macedonians, and how, when the Macedonians were hard pressed, those eight thousand, with the help received from Heaven, had destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand of the enemy and gathered a great amount of booty. ²¹ With words such as these he roused their courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country.

Then Judas divided his army into four sections, ²² placing his brothers, Simon, Joseph,^[b] and Jonathan, in command of one division each and assigning them fifteen hundred men apiece. Read full chapter