1 Maccabees 9:4

1 Maccabees 9:4 Context

²Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and pitched their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and after they had wonne it, they slew much people. ³Also the first moneth of the hundred fiftie and second yeere, they encamped before Ierusalem. ⁴From whence they remoued and went to Berea, with twentie thousand footmen, and two thousand horsemen. ⁵Now Iudas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him. ⁶Who seeing the multitude of the other army to be so great, were sore afraide, whereupon many conueyed themselues out of the hoste, insomuch as there abode of them no moe but eight hundred men.

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