2 Maccabees 8:18–21

¹⁸for they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but ^dour confidence is in the ^eAlmighty God, who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world. ¹⁹Moreover he recounted unto them what ^fhelps their forefathers had found, and ^ghow they were delivered, when under Sennacherib an hundred fourscore and five thousand perished. ²⁰And he told them of the ^hbattle that they had in Babylon with the ⁱGalatians, how they came but eight thousand in all to ⁱⁱthe business, with four thousand Macedonians, and that the Macedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed an hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty. ²¹Thus when he had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the laws and the country, he divided his army into four parts;