5 Judas was encamped at Elasa with three thousand chosen men. (WEB) 6 They saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they were terrified. Many slipped away out of the army. There were not left of them more than eight hundred men. (WEB) 7 Judas saw that his army slipped away and that the battle pressed upon him, and he was very troubled in spirit, because he had no time to gather them together, and he became faint. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 9:5–7
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1 Maccabees 4:20–22
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1 Maccabees 6:41–43
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2 Maccabees 12:21–23
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1 Maccabees 4:28–30
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1 Maccabees 7:39–41
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1 Maccabees 4:7–9
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