28
Now when the king heard this, he was angry: and he called together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and them that were over the horsemen.
29
There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of the sea hired troops.
30
And the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and thirty-two elephants, trained to battle.
31
And they went through Idumea, and approached to Bethsura, and fought many days, and they made engines: but they sallied forth and burnt them with fire, and fought manfully.
32
And Judas departed from the castle, and removed the camp to Bethzacharam, over against the king's camp.
33
And the king rose before it was light, and made his troops march on fiercely towards the way of Bethzacharam: and the armies made themselves ready for the battle, and they sounded the trumpets:
34
And they shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries to provoke them to fight.
35
And they distributed the beasts by the legions: and there stood by every elephant a thousand men in coats of mail, and with helmets of brass on their heads: and five hundred horsemen set in order were chosen for every beast.
36
These before the time wheresoever the beast was, the were there: and withersoever it went, they went, and they departed not from it.
37
And upon the beast, there were strong wooden towers, which covered every one of them: and engines upon them: and upon every one thirty-two valiant men, who fought from above; and an Indian to rule the beast.
38
And the rest of the horsemen he placed on this side and on that side at the two wings, with trumpets to stir up the army, and to hasten them forward that stood thick together in the legions thereof.