21. When they realized this, they completely lost heart; and when they also saw the army of Judas in the plain ready to attack,
22. they all fled to the land of the foreigners.
23. Then Judas went back to plunder the camp, and they took much gold and silver, cloth dyed blue and marine purple, and great treasure.
24. As they returned, they were singing hymns and glorifying Heaven, “who is good, whose mercy endures forever.”
25. Thus Israel experienced a great deliverance that day.
26. But those of the foreigners who had escaped went and told Lysias all that had occurred.
27. When he heard it he was disturbed and discouraged, because things had not turned out in Israel as he intended and as the king had ordered.
28. So the following year he gathered together sixty thousand picked men and five thousand cavalry, to fight them.