2
Its temple was very rich and contained gold shields, breastplates, and weapons that Alexander (the son of Philip, the first Macedonian king to rule over the Greeks) left there.
3
So he went and tried to take the city by force and plunder it. But he was unsuccessful because the city's inhabitants knew about his plan.
4
They resisted him in battle, and he fled. With great disappointment, he planned to return to Babylon.
5
While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated.
6
Lysias, who had gone first with a strong force, had turned and run from the Jews. The Jews then grew stronger when they took weapons, supplies, and abundant spoils from the armies they defeated.