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 which 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 and 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.
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