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After the prayer, they took up their arms and advanced a considerable distance from the city, halting when they were close to the enemy. (2 Maccabees 10, 27)
In the midst of the fierce battle, there appeared to the enemy from the heavens five majestic men riding on golden-bridled horses, who led the Jews on. (2 Maccabees 10, 29)
They surrounded Maccabeus, and shielding him with their own armor, kept him from being wounded. They shot arrows and hurled thunderbolts at the enemy, who were bewildered and blinded, thrown into confusion and routed. (2 Maccabees 10, 30)
Hurling themselves upon the enemy like lions, they laid low eleven thousand foot soldiers and sixteen hundred horsemen, and put all the rest to flight. (2 Maccabees 11, 11)
But when Judas' first cohort appeared, the enemy was overwhelmed with fear and terror at the manifestation of the All-seeing. Scattering in every direction, they rushed away in such headlong flight that in many cases they wounded one another, pierced by the swords of their own men. (2 Maccabees 12, 22)
but Rhodocus, of the Jewish army, betrayed military secrets to the enemy. He was found out, arrested, and imprisoned. (2 Maccabees 13, 21)
He approved of Maccabeus and left him as military and civil governor of the territory from Ptolemais to the region of the Gerrenes. (2 Maccabees 13, 24)
At their leader's command, they set out at once and came upon the enemy at the village of Adasa. (2 Maccabees 14, 16)
Judas' brother Simon had engaged Nicanor, but because of the sudden appearance of the enemy suffered a slight repulse. (2 Maccabees 14, 17)
Judas had posted armed men in readiness at suitable points for fear that the enemy might suddenly carry out some treacherous plan. But the conference was held in the proper way. (2 Maccabees 14, 22)
When Nicanor learned that Judas and his companions were in the territory of Samaria, he decided to attack them in all safety on the day of rest. (2 Maccabees 15, 1)
He urged his men not to fear the enemy, but mindful of the help they had received from Heaven in the past, to expect that now, too, victory would be given them by the Almighty. (2 Maccabees 15, 8)