s, and they
offered holocausts with joy, and sacrifices of salvation, and of praise.

4:57. And they adorned the front of the temple with crowns of gold, and
escutcheons, and they renewed the gates, and the chambers, and hanged
doors upon them.

4:58. And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the
reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.

4:59. And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel decreed,
that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season
from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the
month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.

4:60. They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and
strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come,
and tread it down, as they did before.

4:61. And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it,
to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Machabees Chapter 5

Judas and his brethren attack the enemies of their country, and deliver
them that were distressed. Josephus and Azarius, attempting contrary to
order to fight against their enemies, are defeated.

5:1. Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the
altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were
exceeding angry.

5:2. And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among
them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

5:3. Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them
that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites round about,
and he made a great slaughter of them.

5:4. And he remembered the malice of the children of Bean: who were a
snare and a stumblingblock to the people, by lying in wait for them in
the way.

5:5. And they were shut up by him in towers, and he set upon them, and
devoted them to utter destruction, and burnt their towers with fire, and
all that were in them.

5:6. Then he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a
mighty power, and much people, and Timotheus was their captain:

5:7. And he fought many battles with them, and they were discomfited in
their sight, and he smote them:

5:8. And he took the city of Gazer and her towns, and returned into
Judea.

5:9. And the Gentiles that were in Galaad, assembled themselves together
against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them: and
they fled into the