1 Maccabees 6:39
Good News Translation
The sunlight, reflected off the bronze and gold shields, shone on the mountains and flashed like burning torches.

New Revised Standard Version
When the sun shone on the shields of gold and brass, the hills were ablaze with them and gleamed like flaming torches.

Contemporary English Version
His huge army covered the hills and the valleys. And when the columns of soldiers marched forward, their gold and brass shields caught the rays of the sun and made the hillsides blaze with light.

New American Bible
When the sun shone on the gold and bronze shields, the mountains gleamed with their brightness and blazed like flaming torches.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire.

1 Maccabees 6:37
And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers which covered every one of them: and engines upon them, and upon every one thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above: and an Indian to rule the beast.

1 Maccabees 6:38
And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.

1 Maccabees 6:40
And part of the king's army was distinguished by the high mountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on warily and orderly.

1 Maccabees 6:41
And all the inhabitants of the land were moved at the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the armour, for the army was exceeding great and strong.

Context
1 Maccabees 6
38And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof. 39Now when the sun shone upon the shields of gold, and of brass, the mountains glittered therewith, and they shone like lamps of fire. 40And part of the king's army was distinguished by the high mountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on warily and orderly.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 6:37
And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers which covered every one of them: and engines upon them, and upon every one thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above: and an Indian to rule the beast.

1 Maccabees 6:38
And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side, at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.

1 Maccabees 6:40
And part of the king's army was distinguished by the high mountains, and the other part by the low places: and they marched on warily and orderly.

1 Maccabees 6:41
And all the inhabitants of the land were moved at the noise of their multitude, and the marching of the company, and the rattling of the armour, for the army was exceeding great and strong.



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1 Maccabees 6:38
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