12 ³² After the feast called Pentecost, they hastened against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea. 12 ³³ And he came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry. 12 ³⁴ When they joined battle, it happened that a few of the Jews fell. 12 ³⁵ But a certain Dositheus, one of Bacenor's men, who was on horseback and was a strong man, caught hold of Gorgias, and grasping his cloak was dragging him off by main strength, wishing to take the accursed man alive, when one of the Thracian horsemen bore down upon him and cut off his arm; so Gorgias escaped and reached Marisa.

12 ³⁶ As Esdris and his men had been fighting for a long time and were weary, Judas called upon the Lord to show himself their ally and leader in the battle. 12 ³⁷ In the language of their fathers he raised the battle cry, with hymns; then he charged against Gorgias' men when they were not expecting it, and put them to flight.