“elephants” in the Douay-Rheims Bible
The word elephants appears 11 times in the Douay-Rheims Bible. The first 11 matching verses are shown below.
- 3 Kings 10:22 For the king’s navy, once in three years, went with the navy of Hiram by sea to Tharsis, and brought from thence gold, and silver, and elephants’ teeth, and apes, and peacocks.
- 1 Machabees 1:18 And he entered into Egypt with a great multitude, with chariots, and elephants, and horsemen, and a great number of ships:
- 1 Machabees 3:34 And he delivered to him half the army, and the elephants: and he gave him charge concerning all that he would have done, and concerning the inhabitants of Judea, and Jerusalem.
- 1 Machabees 6:30 And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants trained to battle.
- 1 Machabees 6:34 And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight.
- 1 Machabees 8:6 And how Antiochus, the great king of Asia, who went to fight against them, having a hundred and twenty elephants, with horsemen, and chariots, and a very great army, was routed by them.
- 1 Machabees 11:56 And Tryphon took the elephants, and made himself master of Antioch.
- 2 Machabees 11:4 Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
- 2 Machabees 13:2 And with him Lysias, the regent, who had charge over the affairs of the realm, having with him a hundred and ten thousand footmen, five thousand horsemen, twenty-two elephants, and three hundred chariots armed with hooks.
- 2 Machabees 13:15 And having given his company for a watchword, The victory of God, with most valiant chosen young men, he set upon the king’s quarter by night, and slew four thousand men in the camp, and the greatest of the elephants, with them that had been upon him,
- 2 Machabees 14:12 And forthwith he sent Nicanor, the commander over the elephants, governor into Judea: