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• He had entered the city called Persepolis, planning to rob the temple and occupy the city; but the population at once sprang to arms to defend themselves, with the result that Antiochus was routed by the inhabitants and forced to beat a humiliating retreat. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)

• Flying into a passion, he resolved to make the Jews pay for the disgrace inflicted by those who had routed him, and with this in mind he ordered his charioteer to drive without stopping and get the journey over. But the sentence of Heaven was already hanging over him. In his pride, he had said, 'When I reach Jerusalem, I shall turn it into a mass grave for the Jews.' (2 Maccabees 9, 4)

• Charging like lions on the enemy, they laid low eleven thousand of the infantry and sixteen hundred horsemen, and routed all the rest. (2 Maccabees 11, 11)

• Then, chanting the battle cry and hymns at the top of his voice in his ancestral tongue, by a surprise attack he routed Gorgias' troops. (2 Maccabees 12, 37)

• Armies will be utterly routed and crushed by him, the Prince of the covenant too. (Daniel 11, 22)

• How Esau has been looted, his hidden treasures routed out! (Obadiah 1, 6)

• He has used the power of his arm, he has routed the arrogant of heart. (Luke 1, 51)