2 Maccabees 10:31

2 Maccabees 10:31 Context

²⁹But when the battaile waxed strong, there appeared vnto the enemies from heauen, fiue comely men vpon horses, with bridles of golde, and two of them ledde the Iewes, ³⁰And tooke Maccabeus betwixt them, and couered him on euery side with their weapons, and kept him safe, but shot arrowes & lightenings against the enemies: so that being confounded with blindnesse, and full of trouble, they were killed. ³¹And there were slaine [of footemen] twentie thousand and fiue hundred, and sixe hundred horsemen. ³²As for Timotheus himselfe, hee fled into a very strong holde, called Gazara, where Chereas was gouernour. ³³But they that were with Maccabeus, laid siege against the fortresse couragiously foure dayes.

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