11 Hurling themselves like lions against the enemy, they killed eleven thousand infantry and one thousand six hundred cavalry, and forced all the rest to flee. (WEB) 12 Most of them escaped wounded and naked. Lysias himself also escaped by shameful flight. (WEB) 13 But as he was a man not void of understanding, pondering the defeat which had befallen him, and considering that the Hebrews could not be overcome because the Almighty God fought on their side, he sent again (WEB)
2 Maccabees 11:11–13
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1 Maccabees 11:71–73
71 Jonathan tore his clothes, put dirt on his head, and prayed. (WEB) 72 He turned again to them in battle, and routed them, and they fled. (WEB) 73 When the men on his side who had fled saw this, they returned to him and pursued with him to Kedesh to their camp, and they encamped… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 8:23–25
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1 Maccabees 4:13–15
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3 Maccabees 1:4–6
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1 Maccabees 9:5–7
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1 Maccabees 5:6–8
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1 Maccabees 3:22–24
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1 Maccabees 7:43–45
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