2 Maccabees 8:29-31

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁹ When they had done this, they made common supplication and besought the merciful Lord to be wholly reconciled with his servants.

Judas Defeats Timothy and Bacchides

³⁰ In encounters with the forces of Timothy and Bac′chides they killed more than twenty thousand of them and got possession of some exceedingly high strongholds, and they divided very much plunder, giving to those who had been tortured and to the orphans and widows, and also to the aged, shares equal to their own. ³¹ Collecting the arms of the enemy,^[a] they stored them all carefully in strategic places, and carried the rest of the spoils to Jerusalem.