30. Two of whom took Machabeus between them, and covered him on every side with their arms, and kept him safe: but cast darts and fireballs against the enemy, so that they fell down, being both confounded with blindness, and filled with trouble.
31. And there were slain twenty thousand five hundred, and six hundred horsemen.
32. But Timotheus fled into Gazara a strong hold, where Chereas was governor.
33. Then Machabeus, and they that were with him, cheerfully laid siege to the fortress four days.
34. But they that were within, trusting to the strength of the place, blasphemed exceedingly, and cast forth abominable words.
35. But when the fifth day appeared, twenty young men of them that were with Machabeus, inflamed in their minds because of the blasphemy, approached manfully to the wall, and pushing forward with fierce courage got up upon it.
36. Moreover others also getting up after them, went to set Are to the towers and the gates, and to burn the blasphemers alive.