3
In the first month of the year 152, they camped against Jerusalem.
4
Then they marched off and went to Berea with twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry.
5
Now Judas was camped at Elasa with three thousand handpicked soldiers.
6
When they saw the huge number of enemy forces, they became afraid. Many of them slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them remained.
7
When Judas saw that members of his army had slipped away and the battle was coming close, he was dejected because he had no time to assemble more troops.