25. And so, a great salvation occurred in Israel in that day.
26. But those among the foreigners who escaped went and reported to Lysias all that had happened.
27. And when he heard these things, he was discouraged, being alarmed to his very soul. For things had not occurred in Israel according to his wishes, nor as the king had commanded.
28. And, in the following year, Lysias gathered together sixty thousand chosen men and five thousand horsemen, so that he might defeat them in warfare.
29. And they came into Judea, and they positioned their camp in Bethzur, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.