4:61 And they set there a garrison to keep it, and fortified Bethsura to preserve it; that the people might have a defence against Idumea. 5:1 Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much. 5:2 Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people. 5:3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Arabattine, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils. 5:4 Also he remembered the injury of the children of Bean, who had been a snare and an offence unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways. 5:5 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 that were therein. 5:6 Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their captain. 5:7 So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them. 5:8 And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea. 5:9 Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema. 5:10 And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us: 5:11 And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host. 5:12 Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many of us are slain: 5:13 Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed there about a thousand men. 5:14 While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise, 5:15 And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to consume us. 5:16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and assaulted of them. 5:17 Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men, and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad. 5:18 So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.