22 So he killed these men for having turned traitors, and immediately took possession of the two towers. (WEB) 23 Prospering with his weapons in everything he undertook, he destroyed more than twenty thousand in the two strongholds. (WEB) 24 Now Timotheus, who had been defeated by the Jews before, having gathered together foreign forces in great multitudes, and having collected the cavalry which belonged to Asia, not a few, came as though he would take Judea by force of weapons. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 10:22–24
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2 Maccabees 10:16–18
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