22
For they became the ransom to the sin of the nation; and the Divine Providence saved Israel, aforetime afflicted, by the blood of those pious ones, and the propitiatory death.
23
For the tyrant Antiochus, looking to their manly virtue, and to their endurance in torture, proclaimed that endurance as an example to his soldiers.
24
And they proved to be to him noble and brave for land battles and for sieges; and he conquered and stormed the towns of all his enemies.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.