1
In the mean time when Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army were fallen in battle, he sent again Bacchides and Alcimus into Judea; and the right wing of his army with them.
2
And they took the road that leadeth to Galgal, and they camped in Masaloth, which is in Arabella: and they made themselves masters of it, and slew many people.
3
In the first month of the hundred and fifty-second year they brought the army to Jerusalem:
4
And they arose, and went to Berea with twenty thousand men, and two thousand horsemen.
5
Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen men with him: