1 Maccabees 4:1

1 Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen: and they removed out of the camp by night.

1 Maccabees 4:1 In-Context

1 Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best horsemen: and they removed out of the camp by night.

2 That they might come upon the camp of the Jews, and strike them suddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides.

3 And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to attack the king's forces that were in Emmaus.

4 For as yet the army was dispersed from the camp.

5 And Gorgias came by night into the camp of Judas, and found no man, and he sought them in the mountains: for he said: These men flee from us.