30 Having had an encounter with the forces of Timotheus and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand of them, and made themselves masters of exceedingly high strongholds, and divided very much plunder, giving the maimed, orphans, widows, and the aged an equal share with themselves. (WEB) 31 When they had gathered the weapons of the enemy together, they stored them all up carefully in the most strategic positions, and they carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem. (WEB) 32 They killed the phylarch of Timotheus’s forces, a most unholy man, and one who had done the Jews much harm. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 8:30–32
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