1 Maccabees 3:18–23

¹⁸And Judas said: It is an easy matter for many to be shut up in the hands of a few: and there is no difference in the sight of the God of heaven to deliver with a great multitude, or with a small company:

¹⁹For the success of war is not in the multitude of the army, but strength cometh from heaven.

²⁰They come against us with an insolent multitude, and with pride, to destroy us, and our wives, and our children, and to take our spoils.

²¹But we will fight for our lives, and our laws:

²²And the Lord himself will overthrow them before our face, but as for you, fear them not

²³And as soon as he had made an end of speaking, he rushed suddenly upon them: and Seron, and his host were overthrown before him: