Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 9:5
Source: Septuagint
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5Now Judas had pitched his tents at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
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3Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem:
4from whence they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horsemen.
— 1 Maccabees 9:5 —
6who seeing the multitude of the other army to be so great, were sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host, insomuch as there abode of them no more but eight hundred men.
7When Judas therefore saw that his host slipped away, and that the battle pressed upon him, he was sore troubled in mind, and much distressed, for that he had no time to gather them together.