2 Maccabees 8 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1885, 1895(RV1895)

1 slaughter of the innocent infants, and the blasphemies that had been committed against his name; and to shew his hatred of wickedness.

5And when Maccabæus had trained his men for service, the heathen at once found him irresistible, And coming unawares slaves, promising to allow fourscore and ten slaves for a talent, not expecting the judgement that was to follow upon him from the Almighty.

12But tidings came to Judas ran away and left the country.

14And others sold all that was left over to them, and withal besought the Lord to deliver them that had been sold as slaves by the impious Gauls, how that they came to the engagement eight thousand in all, with four thousand Macedonians, and how that, the Macedonians being hard pressed, the six thousand destroyed the hundred and twenty thousand, because of the succour which they had from heaven, and took great booty.

21And when he had with these words made them of good courage, and ready to die Appointing his brethren to be with himself leaders of the several bands, to wit, disabled the more part of Nicanor's army, and compelled all to flee;

25And they took the money of distance, they returned, being constrained by the time of the day;

26For it was the day before the sabbath, and for this cause they made no effort to chase them far.

27And the arms of the enemy together, and had stripped off maimed, and to maimed and And of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most important positions, and the residue of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.

32And they killed the phylarch of Timotheus's forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much hurt.

33And as they kept the feast of victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those that had gates on fire, and among them Callisthenes, who had fled into an outhouse; and so they received shunning all company like a fugitive slave, arrived at having, as he thought, had the greatest possible good fortune, though his host was destroyed.

36And he that had taken upon him because this was so the Jews were invulnerable, because they followed the laws ordained by him.