Timothy (1)

1. TIMOTHY, Timotheus, General of an Army set on foot by Antiochus Epiphanes, together with Bacchides, another General of the same Prince, was twice defeated by Judas Maccabeus. First, in the Year of the World 3840, a little while after the Purification and new Dedication 2 Macc. viii. 30. 1 Macc. v. 6, 7.of the Temple, Judas killing above twenty thousand of his Soldiers, and taking a great Booty. He beat him again the same Year beyond Jordan, giving him Battel several times, in which Timotheus had always 2 Macc. x. 87.the worst. He was killed a little while after, with Chereas his Brother, at Gazara, whither he had fled, after the loss of a great Battel, wherein Judas had slain twenty thousand six hundred of his Men, and six hundred Horses.

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