Catholic Public Domain Version

1 Maccabees 5:63-68 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

63. And the men of Judah were magnified greatly in the sight of all Israel and of all the nations where their name was heard.

64. And the people gathered to them with favorable acclamations.

65. And so Judas and his brothers went out and assailed the sons of Esau, in the land that is toward the south, and he struck Hebron and her sister cities, and he burned its walls and the towers all around it with fire.

66. And he moved his camp to go into the land of the foreigners, and he traveled through Samaria.

67. In that day, some priests fell in battle. Since they desired to act boldly, they went out, without counsel, into the battle.

68. And Judas turned aside to Azotus, into the land of the foreigners, and he destroyed their altars, and he burned the statues of their gods with fire. And he seized the spoils of the cities, and he returned to the land of Judah.