THEN Yahudah Makkabiy, and they that were with him, went privily into the towns, and called their kinsfolks together, and took unto them all such as continued in the Yahudiym's faith, and assembled about six thousand men.
And they called upon Yahuah, that he would look upon the people that was trodden down of all; and also pity the Temple profaned of wicked men;
And that he would have compassion upon the city, sore defaced, and ready to be made even with the ground; and hear the blood that cried unto him,
And remember the wicked slaughter of harmless infants, and the blasphemies committed against his name; and that he would show his hatred against the wicked.
Now when Yahudah Makkabiy had his company about him, he could not be withstood by the heathen: for the wrath of Yahuah was turned into mercy.
Therefore he came at unawares, and burnt up towns and cities, and got into his hands the most commodious places, and overcame and put to flight no small number of his enemies.
But specially took he advantage of the night for such privy attempts, so much so that the fruit of his holiness was spread everywhere.
So when Philip saw that this man increased by little and little, and that things prospered with him still more and more, he wrote unto Ptolemy, the governor of Celo Aram and Phoenicia, to yield more aid to the king's affairs.
Then forthwith choosing Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of his special friends, he sent him with no fewer than twenty thousand of all nations under him, to root out the whole generation of the Yahudiym; and with him he joined also Gorgias a captain, who in matters of war had great experience.
So Nicanor undertook to make so much money of the captive Yahudiym, as should defray the tribute of two thousand talents, which the king was to pay to the Romaiym.
Wherefore immediately he sent to the cities upon the sea coast, proclaiming a sale of the captive Yahudiym, and promising that they should have fourscore and ten bodies for one talent, not expecting the vengeance that was to follow upon him from El Shaddai.
Now when word was brought unto Yahudah of Nicanor's coming, and he had imparted unto those that were with him that the army was at hand,
They that were fearful, and distrusted the justice of Elohiym, fled, and conveyed themselves away.
Others sold all that they had left, and withal besought Yahuah to deliver them from being sold by the wicked Nicanor before they met together:
And if not for their own sakes, yet for the covenants he had made with their fathers, and for his holy and glorious name's sake, by which they were called.
So Yahudah Makkabiy called his men together unto the number of six thousand, and exhorted them not to be stricken with terror of the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen, who came wrongly against them; but to fight manfully,
And to set before their eyes the injury that they had unjustly done to the holy place, and the cruel handling of the city, whereof they made a mockery, and also the taking away of the government of their forefathers:
For they, said he, trust in their weapons and boldness; but our confidence is in El Shaddai who at a beck can cast down both them that come against us, and also all the world.
Moreover, he recounted unto them what helps their forefathers had found, and how they were delivered, when under Cancheriyv a hundred fourscore and five thousand perished.
And he told them of the battle that they had in Babel with the Galatiym, how they came but eight thousand in all to the business, with four thousand Makedonians, and that the Makedonians being perplexed, the eight thousand destroyed a hundred and twenty thousand because of the help that they had from heaven, and so received a great booty.
Thus when he had made them bold with these words, and ready to die for the Torah and the country, he divided his army into four parts;
And joined with himself his own brethren, leaders of each band, to wit Shim`on, and Yoceph, and Yonathan, giving each one fifteen hundred men.
Also he appointed El`azar to read the holy cepher: and when he had given them this watchword, The help of Elohiym; himself leading the first band,
And by the help of El Shaddai they slew above nine thousand of their enemies, and wounded and maimed the most part of Nicanor's host, and so put all to flight;
And took their money that came to buy them, and pursued them far: but lacking time they returned:
For it was the day before the Shabbath, and therefore they would no longer pursue them.
So when they had gathered their armor together, and spoiled their enemies, they occupied themselves about the Shabbath, yielding exceeding praise and thanks to Yahuah, who had preserved them unto that day, which was the beginning of mercy distilling upon them.
And after the Shabbath, when they had given part of the spoils to the maimed, and the widows, and orphans, the remnant they divided among themselves and their servants.
When this was done, and they had made a common supplication, they besought the merciful Yahuah to be reconciled with his servants forever.
Moreover of those that were with Timotheus and Bacchides, who fought against them, they slew above twenty thousand, and very easily got high and strongholds, and divided among themselves many spoils more, and made the maimed, orphans, widows, yea, and the aged also, equal in spoils with themselves.
And when they had gathered their armor together, they laid them up all carefully in convenient places, and the remnant of the spoils they brought to Yerushalayim.
They slew also Philarches, that wicked person, who was with Timotheus, and had annoyed the Yahudiym many ways.
Furthermore at such time as they kept the feast for the victory in their country they burnt Kallisthenes, that had set fire upon the holy gates, who had fled into a little house; and so he received a reward meet for his wickedness.
As for that most ungracious Nicanor, who had brought a thousand merchants to buy the Yahudiym,
He was through the help of Yahuah brought down by them, of whom he made least account; and putting off his glorious apparel, and discharging his company, he came like a fugitive servant through the midland unto Antioch having very great dishonor, for that his host was destroyed.
Thus he, that took upon him to make good to the Romaiym their tribute by means of captives in Yerushalayim, told abroad, that the Yahudiym had Elohiym to fight for them, and therefore they could not be hurt, because they followed the Torah that he gave them.