1 Maccabees 4:28-30
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
28 But the next year he mustered sixty thousand picked infantrymen and five thousand cavalry to subdue them. 29 They came into Idume′a and encamped at Beth-zur,[a] and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
30 When he saw that the army was strong, he prayed, saying, “Blessed art thou, O Savior of Israel, who didst crush the attack of the mighty warrior by the hand of thy servant David, and didst give the camp of the Philistines into the hands of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and of the man who carried his armor.
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- 4.29 Vulgate has “Judea” for Idumea and “Beth-horon” for Beth-zur.
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