2 Maccabees 8:23-25
New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition
23 Besides, he appointed Eleazar to read aloud[a] from the holy book, and gave the watchword, ‘The help of God’; then, leading the first division himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
24 With the Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy, and wounded and disabled most of Nicanor’s army, and forced them all to flee. 25 They captured the money of those who had come to buy them as slaves. After pursuing them for some distance, they were obliged to return because the hour was late.
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- 2 Maccabees 8:23 Meaning of Gk uncertain
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