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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. 16 Eventually, they filled the camp with terror and confusion and then withdrew in triumph,[a] 17 just as dawn was breaking. All this was achieved through the help and protection that Judas had received from the Lord.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Maccabees 13:16 They . . . withdrew in triumph: according to 1 Mac 6:47, they fled.