placed, and the horsemen set in
wings,

2 Mac 15:21
Maccabeus seeing the coming of the multitude, and the divers
preparations of armour, and the fierceness of the beasts,
stretched out his hands toward heaven, and called upon the Lord
that worketh wonders, knowing that victory cometh not by arms,
but even as it seemeth good to him, he giveth it to such as are
worthy:

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Therefore in his prayer he said after this manner; O Lord,
thou didst send thine angel in the time of Ezekias king of
Judea, and didst slay in the host of Sennacherib an hundred
fourscore and five thousand:

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Wherefore now also, O Lord of heaven, send a good angel
before us for a fear and dread unto them;

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And through the might of thine arm let those be stricken with
terror, that come against thy holy people to blaspheme. And he
ended thus.

2 Mac 15:25
Then Nicanor and they that were with him came forward with
trumpets and songs.

2 Mac 15:26
But Judas and his company encountered the enemies with
invocation and prayer.

2 Mac 15:27
So that fighting with their hands, and praying unto God
with their hearts, they slew no less than thirty
and five thousand men: for through the appearance of God they
were greatly cheered.

2 Mac 15:28
Now when the battle was done, returning again with joy, they
knew that Nicanor lay dead in his harness.

2 Mac 15:29
Then they made a great shout and a noise, praising the
Almighty in their own language.

2 Mac 15:30
And Judas, who was ever the chief defender of the citizens
both in body and mind, and who continued his love toward his
countrymen all his life, commanded to strike off Nicanor's head,
and his hand with his shoulder, and bring them to Jerusalem.

2 Mac 15:31
So when he was there, and called them of his nation together,
and set the priests before the altar, he sent for them that were
of the tower,

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And shewed them vile Nicanor's head, and the hand of that
blasphemer, which with proud brags he had stretched out against
the holy temple of the Almighty.

2 Mac 15:33
And when he had cut out the tongue of that ungodly Nicanor,
he commanded that they should give it by pieces unto the fowls,
and hang up the reward of his madness before the temple.

2 Mac 15:34
So every man praised toward the heaven the glorious Lord,
saying, Blessed be he that hath kept his own place undefiled.

2 Mac 15:35
He hanged also Nicanor's head upon the tower, an evi