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1 Maccabees 4: 1-35
1 Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and a thousand picked cavalry, and this detachment set out at night
2 in order to fall upon the camp of the Jews in a surprise attack. Some from the citadel were his guides.
3 Judas heard of it and himself set out with his soldiers to attack the king’s army at Emmaus
4 while these forces were still scattered away from the camp.
5 During the night Gorgias came into the camp of Judas, and found no one there; so he sought them in the mountains, saying, “They are fleeing from us.”
6 But at daybreak Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men; furthermore they lacked the helmets and swords they wanted.
7 They saw the army of the Gentiles, strong, breastplated, and flanked with cavalry, and made up of experienced soldiers.
verse 7: Army of the Gentiles: the main force
8 Judas said to the men with him: “Do not fear their numbers or dread their attack.
9 Remember how our ancestors were saved in the Red Sea, when Pharaoh pursued them with an army.
10 So now let us cry to Heaven in the hope that he will favor us, remember the covenant with our ancestors, and destroy this army before us today.
11 All the Gentiles shall know that there is One who redeems and delivers Israel.”
12 When the foreigners looked up and saw them marching toward them,
13 they came out of their camp for battle. The men with Judas blew the trumpet, and
14 joined the battle. They crushed the Gentiles, who fled toward the plain.
15 Their whole rear guard fell by the sword, and they were pursued as far as Gazara and the plains of Idumaea, to Azotus and Jamnia. About three thousand of their men fell.
verse 15: Gazara: Gezer of the Hebrew Bible,
five miles northwest of Emmaus;
Azotus, Hebrew Ashdod, lay to the southwest;
and Jamnia, Hebrew Jabneel (Jos 15:11)
or Jabneh (2 Chr 26:6), to the west of Gazara.
Joshua 15:11
(1599 Geneva Bible)
Also this border goeth out unto the side of Ekron Northward:
and this border draweth to Shicron, and goeth along to mount Baalah,
and stretcheth unto Jabneel: and the ends of this coast are unto the Sea.
(Meaning, toward Syria.)
2 Chronicles 26:6
(1599 Geneva Bible)
For he went forth and fought against the Philistines
and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh,
and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities in Ashdod,
and among the Philistines.
16 When Judas and the army returned from the pursuit,
17 he said to the people: “Do not be greedy for plunder; for there is a fight ahead of us,
18 and Gorgias and his army are near us on the mountain. But now stand firm against our enemies and fight them. Afterward you can freely take the plunder.”
19 As Judas was finishing this speech, a detachment appeared, looking down from the mountain.
verse 19: A detachment: i.e., Gorgias’ force
20 They saw that their army had been put to flight and their camp was burning. The smoke they saw revealed what had happened.
21 When they realized this, they completely lost heart; and when they also saw the army of Judas in the plain ready to attack,
22 they all fled to the land of the foreigners.
verse 22: The land of the foreigners:
i.e., territory controlled by the Syrians.
The Greek term used here is the same
as that used throughout 1–2 Samuel in Greek
for Philistine territory and intends to compare
Maccabean victories to those of Saul and David.
23 Then Judas went back to plunder the camp, and they took much gold and silver, cloth dyed blue and marine purple, and great treasure.
24 As they returned, they were singing hymns and glorifying Heaven, “who is good, whose mercy endures forever.”
25 Thus Israel experienced a great deliverance that day.
26 But those of the foreigners who had escaped went and told Lysias all that had occurred.
27 When he heard it he was disturbed and discouraged, because things had not turned out in Israel as he intended and as the king had ordered.
28 So the following year he gathered together sixty thousand picked men and five thousand cavalry, to fight them.
29 They came into Idumea and camped at Beth-zur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.
verse 29: Beth-zur: an important frontier city
(between Judea and Idumea)
in the mountain area, fifteen miles south of Jerusalem.
30 Seeing that the army was strong, he prayed thus:
“Blessed are you, Savior of Israel, who crushed the attack of the mighty one by the hand of your servant David and delivered the foreign camp into the hand of Jonathan, the son of Saul, and his armor-bearer.
31 Give this army into the hands of your people Israel; make them ashamed of their troops and their cavalry.
32 Strike them with cowardice, weaken the boldness of their strength, and let them tremble at their own destruction.
33 Strike them down by the sword of those who love you, that all who know your name may sing your praise.”
34 Then they engaged in battle, and about five thousand of Lysias’ army fell in hand-to-hand fighting.
35 When Lysias saw the tide of the battle turning, and the increased boldness of Judas, whose men were ready either to live or to die nobly, he withdrew to Antioch and began to recruit mercenaries so as to return to Judea with greater numbers.
verse 35: According to 2 Mc 11:13–15,
peace negotiations followed between Lysias and Judas.
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