1Mac 5:1 

Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was 

built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them 

very much. 

1Mac 5:2 

Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob 

that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and 

destroy the people. 

1Mac 5:3 

Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at 

Arabattine, because they besieged Gael: and he gave them a great 

overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils. 

1Mac 5:4 

Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who 

had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they 

lay in wait for them in the ways. 

1Mac 5:5 

He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against 

them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that 

place with fire, and all that were therein. 

1Mac 5:6 

Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he 

found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their 

captain. 

1Mac 5:7 

So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were 

discomfited before him; and he smote them. 

1Mac 5:8 

And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging 

thereto, he returned into Judea. 

1Mac 5:9 

Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves 

together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to 

destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema. 

1Mac 5:10 

And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen 

that are round about us are assembled together against us to 

destroy us: 

1Mac 5:11 

And they are preparing to come and take the fortress 

whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host. 

1Mac 5:12 

Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many 

of us are slain: 

1Mac 5:13 

Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are 

put to death: their wives and their children also they have 

carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have 

destroyed there about a thousand men. 

1Mac 5:14 

While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came 

other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who 

reported on this wise, 

1Mac 5:15 

And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all 

Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to 

consume us. 

1Mac 5:16 

Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there 

assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they 

should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and 

assaulted of them. 

1Mac 5:17 

Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, 

and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and 

Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad. 

1Mac 5:18 

So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains 

of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it. 

1Mac 5:19 

Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of 

this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen 

until the time that we come again. 

1Mac 5:20 

Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into 

Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of 

Galaad. 

1Mac 5:21 

Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles 

with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him. 

1Mac 5:22 

And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there 

were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils 

he took. 

1Mac 5:23 

And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their 

wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away 

with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy. 

1Mac 5:24 

Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over 

Jordan, and travelled three days' journey in the wilderness, 

1Mac 5:25 

Where they met with the Nabathites, who came unto them in a 

peaceable manner, and told them every thing that had happened to 

their brethren in the land of Galaad: 

1Mac 5:26 

And how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, 

and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are 

strong and great: 

1Mac 5:27 

And that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the 

country of Galaad, and that against to morrow they had appointed 

to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to 

destroy them all in one day. 

1Mac 5:28 

Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the 

wilderness unto Bosora; and when he had won the city, he slew 

all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their 

spoils, and burned the city with fire, 

1Mac 5:29 

From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the 

fortress. 

1Mac 5:30 

And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there 

was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of 

war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them. 

1Mac 5:31 

When Judas therefore saw that the battle was begun, and that 

the cry of the city went up to heaven, with trumpets, and a 

great sound, 

1Mac 5:32 

He said unto his host, Fight this day for your brethren. 

1Mac 5:33 

So he went forth behind them in three companies, who sounded 

their trumpets, and cried with prayer. 

1Mac 5:34 

Then the host of Timotheus, knowing that it was Maccabeus, 

fled from him: wherefore he smote them with a great slaughter; 

so that there were killed of them that day about eight thousand 

men. 

1Mac 5:35 

This done, Judas turned aside to Maspha; and after he had 

assaulted it he took and slew all the males therein, and 

received the spoils thereof and and burnt it with fire. 

1Mac 5:36 

From thence went he, and took Casphon, Maged, Bosor, and the 

other cities of the country of Galaad. 

1Mac 5:37 

After these things gathered Timotheus another host and 

encamped against Raphon beyond the brook. 

1Mac 5:38 

So Judas sent men to espy the host, who brought him word, 

saying, All the heathen that be round about us are assembled 

unto them, even a very great host. 

1Mac 5:39 

He hath also hired the Arabians to help them and they have 

pitched their tents beyond the brook, ready to come and fight 

against thee. Upon this Judas went to meet them. 

1Mac 5:40 

Then Timotheus said unto the captains of his host, When Judas 

and his host come near the brook, if he pass over first unto us, 

we shall not be able to withstand him; for he will mightily 

prevail against us: 

1Mac 5:41 

But if he be afraid, and camp beyond the river, we shall go 

over unto him, and prevail against him. 

1Mac 5:42 

Now when Judas came near the brook, he caused the scribes of 

the people to remain by the brook: unto whom he gave 

commandment, saying, Suffer no man to remain in the camp, but 

let all come to the battle. 

1Mac 5:43 

So he went first over unto them, and all the people after 

him: then all the heathen, being discomfited before him, cast 

away their weapons, and fled unto the temple that was at 

Carnaim. 

1Mac 5:44 

But they took the city, and burned the temple with all that 

were therein. Thus was Carnaim subdued, neither could they stand 

any longer before Judas. 

1Mac 5:45 

Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in 

the country of Galaad, from the least unto the greatest, even 

their wives, and their children, and their stuff, a very great 

host, to the end they might come into the land of Judea. 

1Mac 5:46 

Now when they came unto Ephron, (this was a great city in the 

way as they should go, very well fortified) they could not turn 

from it, either on the right hand or the left, but must needs 

pass through the midst of it. 

1Mac 5:47 

Then they of the city shut them out, and stopped up the gates 

with stones. 

1Mac 5:48 

Whereupon Judas sent unto them in peaceable manner, saying, 

Let us pass through your land to go into our own country, and 

none shall do you any hurt; we will only pass through on foot: 

howbeit they would not open unto him. 

1Mac 5:49 

Wherefore Judas commanded a proclamation to be made 

throughout the host, that every man should pitch his tent in the 

place where he was. 

1Mac 5:50 

So the soldiers pitched, and assaulted the city all that day 

and all that night, till at the length the city was delivered 

into his hands: 

1Mac 5:51 

Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and 

rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through 

the city over them that were slain. 

1Mac 5:52 

After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before 

Bethsan. 

1Mac 5:53 

And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and 

exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the 

land of Judea. 

1Mac 5:54 

So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where 

they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain 

until they had returned in peace. 

1Mac 5:55 

Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of 

Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais, 

1Mac 5:56 

Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the 

garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which 

they had done. 

1Mac 5:57 

Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight 

against the heathen that are round about us. 

1Mac 5:58 

So when they had given charge unto the garrison that was with 

them, they went toward Jamnia. 

1Mac 5:59 

Then came Gorgias and his men out of the city to fight 

against them. 

1Mac 5:60 

And so it was, that Joseph and Azaras were put to flight, and 

pursued unto the borders of Judea: and there were slain that day 

of the people of Israel about two thousand men. 

1Mac 5:61 

Thus was there a great overthrow among the children of 

Israel, because they were not obedient unto Judas and his 

brethren, but thought to do some valiant act. 

1Mac 5:62 

Moreover these men came not of the seed of those, by whose 

hand deliverance was given unto Israel. 

1Mac 5:63 

Howbeit the man Judas and his brethren were greatly renowned 

in the sight of all Israel, and of all the heathen, wheresoever 

their name was heard of; 

1Mac 5:64 

Insomuch as the the people assembled unto them with joyful 

acclamations. 

1Mac 5:65 

Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought 

against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where 

he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the 

fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about. 

1Mac 5:66 

From thence he removed to go into the land of the 

Philistines, and passed through Samaria. 

1Mac 5:67 

At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, 

were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight 

unadvisedly. 

1Mac 5:68 

So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and 

when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved 

images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the 

land of Judea.