| II Maccabees 8:9
| And he with all speed sent Nicanor, the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, giving him no fewer than twenty thousand armed men of different nations, to root out the whole race of the Jews, joining also with him Gorgias, a good soldier, and of great experience in matters of war.
| Twenty thousand. The whole number of the forces sent at that time into Judea, was 40,000 footmen and 7,000 horsemen; (1 Machabees 3:30.) but only 20,000 are here taken notice of, because there were no more with Nicanor at that time of the battle. (Challoner)
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