1
Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
2
Therefore they thought to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
3
Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel; and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
4
Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them on the ways.
5
He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all who were therein.
6
Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power and many people, with Timothy their captain.
7
So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.