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In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided very much plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own. (2 Maccabees 8, 30)
It happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, that is, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which was Chislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
Attacking them vigorously, they gained possession of the places, and beat off all who fought upon the wall, and slew those whom they encountered, killing no fewer than twenty thousand. (2 Maccabees 10, 17)
Having success at arms in everything he undertook, he destroyed more than twenty thousand in the two strongholds. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
Twenty thousand five hundred were slaughtered, besides six hundred horsemen. (2 Maccabees 10, 31)
But at dawn of the fifth day, twenty young men in the army of Maccabeus, fired with anger because of the blasphemies, bravely stormed the wall and with savage fury cut down every one they met. (2 Maccabees 10, 35)
Farewell. The one hundred and forty-eighth year, Dioscorinthius twenty-fourth." (2 Maccabees 11, 21)
But Maccabeus arranged his army in divisions, set men in command of the divisions, and hastened after Timothy, who had with him a hundred and twenty thousand infantry and two thousand five hundred cavalry. (2 Maccabees 12, 20)
Then Judas marched against Carnaim and the temple of Atargatis, and slaughtered twenty-five thousand people. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
But the Jews called upon the Sovereign who with power shatters the might of his enemies, and they got the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were within it. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
and with him Lysias, his guardian, who had charge of the government. Each of them had a Greek force of one hundred and ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes. (2 Maccabees 13, 2)
"For twenty-three years, from the thirteenth year of Josi'ah the son of Amon, king of Judah, to this day, the word of the LORD has come to me, and I have spoken persistently to you, but you have not listened. (Jeremiah 25, 3)