1 Maccabees 4:1-3

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The Battle at Emmaus

4 Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and one thousand picked cavalry, and this division moved out by night ² to fall upon the camp of the Jews and attack them suddenly. Men from the citadel were his guides.^{(A) 3} But Judas heard of it, and he and his warriors moved out to attack the king’s force in Emmaus