25. That day Israel had a great deliverance.
26. The foreigners who escaped went and told Lysias about all that had happened.
27. When he heard it, he was perplexed and discouraged. Things hadn’t happened to Israel as he had intended, and they hadn’t turned out the way that the king commanded.
28. The next year he gathered together sixty thousand select men and five thousand cavalry, intending to subdue the Israelites.