How many soldiers did Lysias have?
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This Bible contradiction is from the Skeptic's Annotated Bible.

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60,000.

1 Maccabees 4:27-29 View context

And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded. So the year following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them. And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.

80,000.

2 Maccabees 11:2 View context

Gathered together fourscore thousand men, and all the horsemen, and came against the Jews, thinking to take the city, and make it a habitation of the Gentiles:

110,000.

2 Machabees 13:2 View context

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