2 Maccabees 12:24
23. Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.24. Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews' parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.25. So when he had assured them with many words that he would restore them without hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go for the saving of their brethren.
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