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1Mac 5:1
Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was
built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them
very much.
1Mac 5:2
Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob
that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and
destroy the people.
1Mac 5:3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at
Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great
overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
1Mac 5:4
Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who
had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they
lay in wait for them in the ways.
1Mac 5:5
He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against
them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that
place with fire, and all that were therein.
1Mac 5:6
Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he
found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their
captain.
1Mac 5:7
So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were
discomfited before him; and he smote them.
1Mac 5:8
And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging
thereto, he returned into Judea.
1Mac 5:9
Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves
together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to
destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.
1Mac 5:10
And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen
that are round about us are assembled together against us to
destroy us:
1Mac 5:11
And they are preparing to come and take the fortress
whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.
1Mac 5:12
Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many
of us are slain:
1Mac 5:13
Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are
put to death: their wives and their children also they have
carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have
destroyed there about a thousand men.
1Mac 5:14
While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came
other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who
reported on this wise,
1Mac 5:15
And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all
Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to
consume us.
1Mac 5:16
Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there
assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they
should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and
assaulted of them.
1Mac 5:17
Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men,
and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and
Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.
1Mac 5:18
So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains
of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.
1Mac 5:19
Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of
this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen
until the time that we come again.
1Mac 5:20
Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into
Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of
Galaad.
1Mac 5:21
Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles
with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.
1Mac 5:22
And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there
were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils
he took.
1Mac 5:23
And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their
wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away
with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.
1Mac 5:24
Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over
Jordan, and travelled three days' journey in the wilderness,
1Mac 5:25
Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a
peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to
their brethren in the land of Galaad:
1Mac 5:26
And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor,
and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are
strong and great:
1Mac 5:27
And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the
country of Galaad, and that against to morrow they had appointed
to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to
destroy them all in one day.
1Mac 5:28
Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the
wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew
all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their
spoils, and burned the city with fire,
1Mac 5:29
From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the
fortress.
1Mac 5:30
And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there
was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of
war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.
1Mac 5:31
When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that
the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a
great sound,
1Mac 5:32
He said unto his host, Fight this day for your brethren.
1Mac 5:33
So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded
their trumpets, and cried with prayer.
1Mac 5:34
Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus,
fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter;
so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand
men.
1Mac 5:35
This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had
assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and
received the spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire.
1Mac 5:36
From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the
other cities of the country of Galaad.
1Mac 5:37
After these things gathered Timotheus another host and
encamped against Raphon beyond the brook.
1Mac 5:38
So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word,
saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled
unto them, even a very great host.
1Mac 5:39
He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have
pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight
against thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them.
1Mac 5:40
Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas
and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us,
we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily
prevail against us:
1Mac 5:41
But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go
over unto him, and prevail against him.
1Mac 5:42
Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of
the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave
commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but
let all come to the battle.
1Mac 5:43
So he went first over unto them, and all the people after
him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast
away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at
Carnaim.
1Mac 5:44
But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that
were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand
any longer before Judas.
1Mac 5:45
Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in
the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even
their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great
host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea.
1Mac 5:46
Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the
way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn
from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs
pass through the midst of it.
1Mac 5:47
Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates
with stones.
1Mac 5:48
Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying,
Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and
none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot:
howbeit they would not open unto him.
1Mac 5:49
Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made
throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the
place where he was.
1Mac 5:50
So the soldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day
and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered
into his hands:
1Mac 5:51
Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and
rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through
the city over them that were slain.
1Mac 5:52
After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before
Bethsan.
1Mac 5:53
And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and
exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the
land of Judea.
1Mac 5:54
So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where
they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain
until they had returned in peace.
1Mac 5:55
Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of
Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
1Mac 5:56
Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the
garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which
they had done.
1Mac 5:57
Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight
against the heathen that are round about us.
1Mac 5:58
So when they had given charge unto the garrison that was with
them, they went toward Jamnia.
1Mac 5:59
Then came Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight
against them.
1Mac 5:60
And so it was, that Joseph and Azaras were put to flight, and
pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day
of the people of Israel about two thousand men.
1Mac 5:61
Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of
Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his
brethren, but thought to do some valiant act.
1Mac 5:62
Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose
hand deliverance was given unto Israel.
1Mac 5:63
Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned
in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever
their name was heard of;
1Mac 5:64
Insomuch as the the people assembled unto them with joyful
acclamations.
1Mac 5:65
Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought
against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where
he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the
fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.
1Mac 5:66
From thence he removed to go into the land of the
Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
1Mac 5:67
At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour,
were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight
unadvisedly.
1Mac 5:68
So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and
when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved
images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the
land of Judea.