s a name, and let us go fight
against the Gentiles that are round about us.

5:58. And he gave charge to them that were in his army, and they went
towards Jamnia.

5:59. And Gorgias and his men went out of the city, to give them battle.

5:60. And Joseph and Azarias were put to flight, and were pursued unto
the borders of Judea: and there fell on that day, of the people of
Israel, about two thousand men, and there was a great overthrow of the
people:

5:61. Because they did not hearken to Judas and his brethren, thinking
that they should do manfully.

5:62. But they were not of the seed of those men by whom salvation was
brought to Israel.

5:63. And the men of Juda were magnified exceedingly in the sight of all
Israel, and of all the nations where their name was heard.

5:64. And the people assembled to them with joyful acclamations.

5:65. Then Judas and his brethren went forth and attacked the children
of Esau, in the land towards the south, and he took Chebron and her
towns: and he burnt the walls thereof, and the towers all round it.

5:66. And he removed his camp to go into the land of the aliens, and he
went through Samaria.

5:67. In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do
manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.

5:68. And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he
threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with
fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land
of Juda.

1 Machabees Chapter 6

The fruitless repentance and death of Antiochus. His son comes against
Judas with a formidable army. He besieges Sion: but at last makes peace
with the Jews.

6:1. Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he
heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and
abounding in silver and gold,

6:2. And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of
gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of
Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

6:3. So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he
was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the
city.

6:4. And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from
thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

6:5. And whilst he was in Persia there came one that told him how the
armies that were in the land of J