2 Maccabees 8:18–21
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18“For they trust to arms and acts of daring,” he said, “but we trust in the Almighty God, who is able with a single nod to strike down those who are coming against us, and even, if necessary, the whole world.”*
19Moreover, he told them of the occasions when help came to their ancestors, how, in the time of Sennacherib, when one hundred eighty-five thousand perished,* 20and the time of the battle against the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand Jewsp 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 Galatiansq and took a great amount of plunder.
Judas Defeats Nicanor
21With these words he filled them with courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country; then he divided his army into four parts.*
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