2 Maccabees 11:4

4 He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants.

2 Maccabees 11:4 In-Context

2 gathered about eighty thousand infantry and all his cavalry and came against the Jews. He intended to make the city a home for Greeks,

3 and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year.

4 He took no account whatever of the power of God, but was elated with his ten thousands of infantry, and his thousands of cavalry, and his eighty elephants.

5 Invading Judea, he approached Beth-zur, which was a fortified place about five stadia from Jerusalem, and pressed it hard.

6 When Maccabeus and his men got word that Lysias was besieging the strongholds, they and all the people, with lamentations and tears, prayed the Lord to send a good angel to save Israel.