OLD TESTAMENT

2 Maccabees 15:27

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Fighting with their hands and praying to God with their hearts, they killed no less than thirty-five thousand men, being made exceedingly glad by the manifestation of God.

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Verse 27. Five. Josephus has only 30,000. Ant. xii. 17. Calmet.—Presence. He had granted them victory. Menochius.

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