Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation In the following year Lysias gathered an army of 60,000 well-trained infantry and 5,000 cavalry, intending to conquer the Jews. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them. 1 Maccabees 4:26And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that had happened. 1 Maccabees 4:27 And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. 1 Maccabees 4:29 And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men. 1 Maccabees 4:30 And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer. Context 1 Maccabees 4…27And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. 28So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them. 29And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 4:26 And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that had happened. 1 Maccabees 4:27 And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. 1 Maccabees 4:29 And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men. 1 Maccabees 4:30 And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said: Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of his armour bearer. |