15. Judas gave his men the battle-cry, “Victory comes from God,” and that night, with a picked force of his bravest young men, he attacked the area near the king's tent and killed as many as 2,000 men. They also stabbed to death the leading elephant and its keeper.
16. Everyone in camp was terrified and in panic when Judas and his men finally left victoriously
17. just before dawn. The help and protection of the Lord had made all this possible.
18. This taste of Jewish daring was enough to convince King Antiochus that he had to find some better way of capturing the Jewish positions.