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2 Maccabees 13:13-15
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 13:13-15
New Catholic Bible
13 After consulting privately with the elders, he decided not to wait for the king’s army to invade Judea and take possession of the city, but to march forth and resolve matters with the help of God. 14 Thus, committing the outcome to the Creator of the world and exhorting his soldiers to fight bravely to the death for the law, the temple, the city, the country, and their way of life, he pitched camp near Modein.[a] 15 After giving his troops the battle cry, “God’s victory,” he made a nighttime attack on the king’s pavilion with a picked force of his bravest young warriors and killed about two thousand of the enemy in the camp, also slaying the lead elephant and its driver.
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- 2 Maccabees 13:14 Modein: the home of the Maccabean family (see 1 Mac 2:1) on the western boundary of Judea. The area was well situated to prevent the passage of those who from the plains attempted to ascend to Jerusalem by the sole road that passed through very narrow mountain gorges.
