But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

But they came back for want of time: for it was the day before the sabbath: and therefore they did not continue the pursuit.

2 Maccabees 8:24
And the Almighty being their helper, they slew above nine thousand men: and having wounded and disabled the greater part of Nicanor's army, they obliged them to fly.

2 Maccabees 8:25
And they took the money of them that came to buy them, and they pursued them on every side.

2 Maccabees 8:27
But when they had gathered together their arms and their spoils, they kept the sabbath: blessing the Lord who had delivered them that day, distilling the beginning of mercy upon them.

2 Maccabees 8:28
Then after the sabbath they divided the spoils to the feeble and the orphans, and the widows, and the rest they took for themselves and their servants.