1 Maccabees 6:34DRA

Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 34 of 63

"And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries to provoke them to fight."
1 Maccabees 6:34

In context

32And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king’s camp.

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.

36These before the time wheresoever the beast was, the were there: and withersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.

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