OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 16:4

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He chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and cavalry, and they went against Cendebaeus, and slept at Modin.

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Verse 4. Horsemen. This is the first time we find them in the army. Judas had only infantry, as more conformable to the law; (Deuteronomy 17. Tournem.) or he had not been able to procure any. Bible.

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