1 Maccabees 5:61-68

61 Thus the people suffered a great rout because, thinking to do a brave deed, they did not listen to Judas and his brothers.

62 But they did not belong to the family of those men through whom deliverance was given to Israel.

63 The man Judas and his brothers were greatly honored in all Israel and among all the Gentiles, wherever their name was heard.

64 People gathered to them and praised them.

65 Then Judas and his brothers went out and fought the descendants of Esau in the land to the south. He struck Hebron and its villages and tore down its strongholds and burned its towers on all sides.

66 Then he marched off to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Marisa.

67 On that day some priests, who wished to do a brave deed, fell in battle, for they went out to battle unwisely.

68 But Judas turned aside to Azotus in the land of the Philistines; he tore down their altars, and the carved images of their gods he burned with fire; he plundered the towns and returned to the land of Judah.

Footnotes

• [a]. Other ancient authorities read [Samaria]