³⁹ They also have hired Arabs to help them, and they are encamped across the stream ready to come and fight against you.” And Judas went to meet them.^(A)

¹¹ He set aside the existing royal concessions to the Jews, secured through John the father of Eupolemus, who went on the mission to establish friendship and alliance with the Romans, and he destroyed the lawful ways of living and introduced new customs contrary to the law.^(A)

The Campaign in Gilead

¹⁰ When they had gone more than a mile^[a] from there on their march against Timothy, at least five thousand Arabs with five hundred cavalry attacked them.^(A)

³² In Damascus, the governor under King Aretas guarded the city of Damascus in order to^[a] seize me,^(A)