1 Maccabees 9:2

2 They went by the road that leads to Gilgal and encamped against Mesaloth in Arbela, and they took it and killed many people.

1 Maccabees 9:2 In-Context

1 When Demetrius heard that Nicanor and his army had fallen in battle, he sent Bacchides and Alcimus into the land of Judah a second time, and with them the right wing of the army.

2 They went by the road that leads to Gilgal and encamped against Mesaloth in Arbela, and they took it and killed many people.

3 In the first month of the one hundred fifty-second year they encamped against Jerusalem;

4 then they marched off and went to Berea with twenty thousand foot soldiers and two thousand cavalry.

5 Now Judas was encamped in Elasa, and with him were three thousand picked men.