1. When the nations round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored as before, they were enraged.
2. So they decided to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and they began to kill and eradicate the people.
3. Then Judas attacked the Edomites at Akrabattene in Idumea, because they were blockading Israel; he dealt them a heavy blow, humbled and despoiled them.
4. He also remembered the malice of the Baeanites, who had become a snare and a stumbling block to the people by ambushing them along the roads.