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 the whole world.”
19Moreover, he told them of the times when help came to their ancestors; both the time of Sennacherib, when one hundred and eighty-five thousand perished, 20and the time of the battle with the Galatians that took place in Babylonia, when eight thousand in all went into the affair, with four thousand Macedonians; and when the Macedonians were hard pressed, the eight thousand, by the help that came to them from heaven, destroyed one hundred and twenty thousand and took much booty.
21With these words he filled them with good courage and made them ready to die for their laws and their country; then he divided his army into four parts.
Copyright 1965, 1966 Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America.