32. After the Festival of Pentecost they moved against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea.
33. He came out with three thousand foot soldiers and four hundred horses.
34. A small number of Jews fell during the battle.
35. Dositheus, one of Bacenor’s men, a strong man on horseback, had seized Gorgias. Holding on to the governor’s robe, he dragged him down roughly, trying to take the horrible man alive. But one of the Thracian cavalry men assaulted Dositheus, crushed his shoulder, and Gorgias escaped into Marisa.