Treasury of Scripture Knowledge And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight. 1 Maccabees 6:32And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp. 1 Maccabees 6:33 And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets: 1 Maccabees 6:35 And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast. 1 Maccabees 6:36 These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there: and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it. Context 1 Maccabees 6…33And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets: 34And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight. 35And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.… Cross References 1 Maccabees 6:32 And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp. 1 Maccabees 6:33 And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets: 1 Maccabees 6:35 And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast. 1 Maccabees 6:36 These before the time wheresoever the beast was they were there: and whithersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it. |
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