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They also challenged the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides and destroyed over twenty thousand of them, gaining possession of several high fortresses. They divided their enormous booty into two equal shares, one for themselves, the other for the victims of the persecution and the orphans and widows, not forgetting the aged. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
This day of the purification of the Temple fell on the very day on which the Temple had been profaned by the foreigners, the twenty-fifth of the same month, Chislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
Vigorously pressing home their attack, they seized possession of these vantage points, beating off all who fought on the ramparts; they slaughtered all who fell into their hands, accounting for no fewer than twenty thousand. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
Successful in all that he undertook by force of arms, in these two fortresses he slaughtered more than twenty thousand men. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
Twenty thousand five hundred infantry and six hundred cavalry were slaughtered. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
At daybreak on the fifth day, twenty young men of Maccabaeus' forces, fired with indignation at the blasphemies, manfully assaulted the wall, with wild courage cutting down everyone they encountered. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
Invading Judaea, he approached Beth-Zur, a fortified position about twenty miles from Jerusalem, and began to subject it to strong pressure. (2 Maccabees 11, 5)
May you prosper. 'The twenty-fourth day of Dioscorus, in the year one hundred and forty-eight.' (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
Maccabaeus himself divided his army into cohorts to which he assigned commanders, and then hurried in pursuit of Timotheus, whose troops numbered one hundred and twenty thousand infantry and two thousand five hundred cavalry. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
Reaching the Carnaim and the Atargateion, Judas slaughtered twenty-five thousand men. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
But the Jews, having invoked the Sovereign who by his power shatters enemies' defences, gained control of the town and cut down nearly twenty-five thousand of the people inside. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
and with him Lysias his tutor and chief minister; he had moreover a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots fitted with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)