Holy Scripture

3 Maccabees 6:19

Source: Septuagint

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19And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies’ host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.

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17When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.

18Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down, and were visible to all but the Jews.

3 Maccabees 6:19

20And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralyzed the vehemence of his spirit.

21They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.

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