1 Maccabees 4:4

4 while the division was still absent from the camp.

1 Maccabees 4:4 In-Context

2 to fall upon the camp of the Jews and attack them suddenly. Men from the citadel were his guides.

3 But Judas heard of it, and he and his mighty men moved out to attack the king's force in Emmaus

4 while the division was still absent from the camp.

5 When Gorgias entered the camp of Judas by night, he found no one there, so he looked for them in the hills, because he said, "These men are fleeing from us."

6 At daybreak Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men, but they did not have armor and swords such as they desired.