32
Upon this Judas removed from the tower, and pitched in Bathzacharias, over against the king's camp.
33
Then the king rising very early marched fiercely with his host toward Bathzacharias, where his armies made them ready to battle, and sounded the trumpets.
34
And to the end they might provoke the elephants to fight, they shewed them the blood of grapes and mulberries.
35
Moreover they divided the beasts among the armies, and for every elephant they appointed a thousand men, armed with coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads; and beside this, for every beast were ordained five hundred horsemen of the best.
36
These were ready at every occasion: wheresoever the beast was, and whithersoever the beast went, they went also, neither departed they from him.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.