2 Maccabees 8:14

2 Maccabees 8:14 Context

¹²Now when word was brought vnto Iudas of Nicanors cōming, and he had imparted vnto those that were with him, that the army was at hand, ¹³They that were fearefull, and distrusted the iustice of God, fled, and conueyed themselues away. ¹⁴Others sold all that they had left, and withall besought the Lord to deliuer them, being solde by the wicked Nicanor before they met together: ¹⁵And if not for their owne sakes, yet for þ^e couenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious Names sake, by which they were called ¹⁶So Maccabeus called his men together vnto the number of sixe thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terrour of the enemie, nor to feare the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them, but to fight manfully,

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