1 Maccabees 9:5-7

Common English Bible

⁵ Now Judas was camped at Elasa with three thousand handpicked soldiers. ⁶ When they saw the huge number of enemy forces, they became afraid. Many of them slipped away from the camp, until no more than eight hundred of them remained.

⁷ When Judas saw that members of his army had slipped away and the battle was coming close, he was dejected because he had no time to assemble more troops.