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1 Maccabees 6:35 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" They distributed the animals among the phalanxes. They set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail and helmets of brass on their heads. Five hundred chosen cavalry were appointed for each elephant. "

1 Maccabees 6:35

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33 The king rose early in the morning, and marched his army at full speed along the road to Bethzacharias. His forces made themselves ready to battle and sounded their trumpets.

34 They offered the elephants the juice of grapes and mulberries, that they might prepare them for the battle.

35 They distributed the animals among the phalanxes. They set by each elephant a thousand men armed with coats of mail and helmets of brass on their heads. Five hundred chosen cavalry were appointed for each elephant.

36 These were ready beforehand, wherever the elephant was. Wherever the elephant went, they went with it. They didn’t leave it.

37 Strong, covered wooden towers were upon them, one upon each elephant, fastened upon it with secure harnesses. Upon each were four valiant men who fought upon them, beside his Indian driver.

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2 Maccabees 15:20

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"When all were now waiting for the decision of the issue, and the enemy had already joined battle, and the army had been set in array, and the elephants brought back to a convenient post, and the cavalry deployed on the flanks,"

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2 Maccabees 13:2

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"and with him Lysias his guardian and chancellor, each having a Greek force of one hundred ten thousand infantry, five thousand three hundred cavalry, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with scythes."

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"He divided the people, and placed the cavalry in the midst of the infantry; but the enemies’ cavalry were exceedingly many."

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"He entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, with elephants, with cavalry, and with a great navy."

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Judith 7:2

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"Every mighty man of them moved that day. The army of their men of war was one hundred seventy thousand footmen, plus twelve thousand horsemen, besides the baggage and the men who were on foot among them—an exceedingly great multitude."

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"In the third chariot were white horses. In the fourth chariot were dappled horses, all of them powerful."

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1 Maccabees 6:1

"King Antiochus was traveling through the upper countries; and he heard that in Elymais in Persia there was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold,"

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"and that the temple which was in it was exceedingly rich, and that in it were golden shields, breastplates, and weapons which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Greeks, left behind there."

1 Maccabees 6:3

"So he came and tried to take the city and to pillage it; and he was not able, because his plan was known to them of the city,"

1 Maccabees 6:4

"and they rose up against him in battle. He fled and returned to Babylon with great disappointment."

1 Maccabees 6:5

"Then someone came into Persia bringing him news that the armies which went against the land of Judah had been put to flight,"

1 Maccabees 6:6

"and that Lysias went first with a strong army and was put to shame before them, and that they had grown strong because of weapons, power, and a supply of plunder which they took from the armies that they had cut off,"

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