⁸ But Judas said to those who were with him, “Do not fear their numbers or be afraid when they charge.^(A)

⁹ Remember how our ancestors were saved at the Red Sea, when Pharaoh with his forces pursued them.^(A)

¹⁶ But Maccabeus gathered his forces together, to the number six thousand, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy and not to fear the great multitude of nations who were wickedly coming against them but to fight nobly,^(A)

¹⁹ Moreover, he told them of the occasions when help came to their ancestors, how, in the time of Sennacherib, when one hundred eighty-five thousand perished,^(A)