2 Maccabees 8:29-31

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁹ When this was done, and they had all made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Lord to be reconciled to his servants unto the end.

³⁰ Moreover they slew above twenty thousand of them that were with Timotheus and Bacchides who fought them, and they made themselves masters of the high strong holds: and they divided amongst them many spoils, giving equal portions to the feeble, the fatherless and the widows, yea and the aged also.

³¹ And when they had carefully gathered together their arms, they laid them all up in convenient places, and the residue of their spoils they carried to Jerusalem: