1 Maccabees 16:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And now I am old, but be you instead of me, and my brethren, and go out, and fight for our nation: and the help from heaven be with you.

⁴ Then he chose out of the country twenty thousand fighting men, and horsemen, and they went forth against Cendebeus: and they rested in Modin.

⁵ And they arose in the morning, and went into the plain: and behold a very great army of footmen and horsemen came against them, and there was a running river between them.