1 promptly appointed Nicanor son of Patroclus, one of the king’s First Friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand men of various nations, to wipe out the entire people of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service.
10 had committed against the holy place and the torture of the derided city, as well as the overthrow of their ancestral way of life.
18 fought along with four thousand Macedonians; yet when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred twenty thousand Galatians and took a great amount of plunder.
Judas Defeats Nicanor21 from the holy book and gave the watchword, “The help of God”; then, leading the first division himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.
24With the Almighty as their ally, they killed more than nine thousand of the enemy and wounded and disabled most of Nicanor’s army and forced them all to flee.
25 and carefully stored all of them in strategic places; the rest of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.
32They killed the commander of Timothy’s forces, a most wicked man, and one who had greatly troubled the Jews.
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34 vv 11, 25 ; 2 Macc 15.3The thrice-accursed Nicanor, who had brought the thousand merchants to buy the Jews,
35having been humbled with the help of the Lord by opponents whom he regarded as of the least account, took off his splendid uniform and made his way alone like a runaway slave across the country until he reached Antioch, having succeeded chiefly in the destruction of his own army!
36v 10; 2 Macc 3.38, 39So he who had undertaken to secure tribute for the Romans by the capture of the people of Jerusalem proclaimed that the Jews had a Defender and that therefore the Jews were invulnerable because they followed the laws ordained by him.
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