2 Maccabees 8:23
“Also (hee appointed) Eleazar to reade the holy booke: and when he had giuen them this watchword, The help of God; himselfe leading the first band, he ioyned battell with Nicanor:”
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2 Maccabees 8:23 Context
21Thus when hee had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the Lawes, and the countrey, he diuided his army into foure parts: 22And ioyned with himselfe his owne brethren, leaders of each band, to wit, Simon, and Ioseph, & Ionathan, giuing each one fifteene hundred men. 23Also (hee appointed) Eleazar to reade the holy booke: and when he had giuen them this watchword, The help of God; himselfe leading the first band, he ioyned battell with Nicanor: 24And by the helpe of the Almightie, they slew aboue nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanors hoste, and so put all to flight: 25And tooke their money that came to buy them, and pursued them farre: but lacking time, they returned.
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Also he appointed Eleazar to read the holy book: and when he had given them this watchword, The help of God; himself leading the first band,
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