oking forth from the mountain.

4:20. And Gorgias saw that his men were put to flight, and that they had
set fire to the camp: for the smoke that was seen declared what was
done.

4:21. And when they had seen this, they were seized with great fear,
seeing at the same time Judas and his army in the plain ready to fight.

4:22. So they all fled away into the land of the strangers.

4:23. And Judas returned to take the spoils of the camp, and they got
much gold, and silver, and blue silk, and purple of the sea, and great
riches.

4:24. And returning home, they sung a hymn, and blessed God in heaven,
because he is good, because his mercy endureth for ever.

4:25. So Israel had a great deliverance that day.

4:26 And such of the strangers as escaped, went and told Lysias all that
had happened.

4:27. 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.

4:28. So the year following, Lysias gathered together threescore
thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue
them.

4:29. And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and
Judas met them with ten thousand men.

4:30. And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said:
Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of
the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the
camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of
his armour bearer.

4:31. Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them
be confounded in their host and their horsemen. 32 Strike them with
fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them
quake at their own destruction.

4:33. Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all
that know thy name praise thee with hymns.

4:34. And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five
thousand men.

4:35. And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold
the Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die
manfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come
again into Judea with greater numbers.

4:36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are
discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair
them.

4:37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount
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