28 But calling upon the Sovereign who with might shatters the strength of the enemy, they took the city into their hands, and killed as many as twenty-five thousand of those who were in it. (WEB) 29 Setting out from there, they marched in haste against Scythopolis, which is six hundred furlongs away from Jerusalem. (WEB) 30 But when the Jews who were settled there testified of the good will that the Scythopolitans had shown toward them, and of their kind treatment of them in the times of their misfortune, (WEB)
2 Maccabees 12:28–30
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