3 Maccabees 6:19LXX

Orthodox Bible · LXX · Verse 19 of 41

"And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies' host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters."
3 Maccabees 6:19

In context

17When the Jews saw this, they uttered a loud cry to heaven, so that the adjacent valleys resounded, and caused an irrepressible lamentation throughout the army.

18Then the all-glorious, all-powerful, and true God, displayed his holy countenance, and opened the gates of heaven, from which two angels, dreadful of form, came down, and were visible to all but the Jews.

19And they stood opposite, and filled the enemies' host with confusion and cowardice; and bound them with immoveable fetters.

20And a cold shudder came over the person of the king, and oblivion paralysed the vehemence of his spirit.

21They turned back the animals upon the armed forces which followed them; and the animals trod them down, and destroyed them.

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