World English Bible

1 Maccabees 8:8-11 World English Bible (WEB)

8. the country of India, and Media, and Lydia, and of the goodliest of their countries; and they took them from him, and gave them to king Eumenes:

9. and how they of Greece took counsel to come and destroy them;

10. and the thing was known to them, and they sent against them a captain, and fought against them, and many of them fell down wounded to death, and they made captive their wives and their children, and spoiled them, and conquered their land, and pulled down their strongholds, and spoiled them, and brought them into bondage to this day:

11. and the residue of the kingdoms and of the isles, as many as rose up against them at any time, they destroyed and made them to be their servants;