48. Then Judas sent them this peaceful message: “Let us cross your territory in order to reach our own; no one will harm you; we will only march through.” But they would not open to him.
49. So Judas ordered a proclamation to be made in the camp that everyone should take up positions where they were.
50. When the men of the army took up their positions, he assaulted the city all that day and night, and it was delivered into his hand.
51. He put every male to the sword, leveled the city, took spoils and passed through it over the slain.
52. Then they crossed the Jordan to the great plain in front of Beth-shan;