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His forces numbered a hundred thousand foot soldiers, twenty thousand cavalry and thirty-two elephants with experience of battle conditions. (1 Maccabees 6, 30)
while Antiochus the Great, king of Asia, who had advanced to attack them with a hundred and twenty elephants, cavalry, chariots and a very large army, had also suffered defeat at their hands; (1 Maccabees 8, 6)
They had set up a senate, where three hundred and twenty councillors deliberated daily, constantly debating how best to regulate public affairs. (1 Maccabees 8, 15)
they then moved on, making their way to Beer-Zaith with twenty thousand foot and two thousand horse. (1 Maccabees 9, 4)
The citizens crowded together in the centre of the city, to the number of some hundred and twenty thousand, intending to kill the king. (1 Maccabees 11, 45)
The Jews made their entry on the twenty-third day of the second month in the year 171, with acclamations and carrying palms, to the sound of lyres, cymbals and harps, chanting hymns and canticles, since a great enemy had been crushed and thrown out of Israel. Simon made it a day of annual rejoicing. (1 Maccabees 13, 51)
Antiochus pitched camp outside Dora with a hundred and twenty thousand fighting men and eight thousand cavalry. (1 Maccabees 15, 13)
He then selected twenty thousand of the country's fighting men and cavalry, and these marched against Cendebaeus, spending the night at Modein. (1 Maccabees 16, 4)
'As we shall be celebrating the purification of the Temple on the twenty-fifth of Chislev, we consider it proper to notify you, so that you too may celebrate it, as you do the feast of Shelters and the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the builder of the Temple and the altar, offered sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
the king also sent the Mysarch Apollonius at the head of an army twenty-two thousand strong, with orders to put to death all men in their prime and to sell the women and children. (2 Maccabees 5, 24)
Ptolemy chose Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king's First Friends, and sent him without delay at the head of an international force of at least twenty thousand men to exterminate the entire Jewish race. As his associate he appointed Gorgias, a professional experience. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
that time in Babylonia when in the battle with the Galatians the Jewish combatants numbered only eight thousand, with four thousand Macedonians, yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand had destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand, thanks to the help they had received from Heaven, and had taken great booty as a result. (2 Maccabees 8, 20)