IV. ELEAZAR, surnamed Savaran, brother to Judas Maccabæus. In Josephus he is called Auran or Avran. Eleazar perceiving an Elephant in King Antiochus Eupator’s army, more beautiful, and more richly harnessed than the rest, and imagining that the King, who was then laying siege to Bethsura, might be upon him, he made his way thro’ the enemy, and getting under the animal pierced its belly with his sword; but the Elephant falling on him, crushed him to death.
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