2 Maccabees 8:29-31

New Catholic Bible

²⁹ After this had been done, they joined in common supplication, beseeching the merciful Lord to be fully reconciled with his servants.

³⁰ Defeat of Timothy and Bacchides.^[a] They also engaged in battle with the forces of Timothy and Bacchides, killing more than twenty thousand of them and gaining possession of some very high strongholds. They divided the immense amount of plunder, giving half to the persecuted orphans and widows and the aged, and keeping the remaining half for themselves. ³¹ They carefully collected the weapons of the enemy and stored them in strategic locations; the rest of the spoils they carried to Jerusalem.