25. Nicanor and his troops advanced to the sound of trumpets and battle songs.
26. But Judas and his troops met the enemy with supplication and prayers.
27. Fighting with their hands and praying to God with their hearts, they laid low at least thirty-five thousand, and rejoiced greatly over this manifestation of God’s power.
28. When the battle was over and they were joyfully departing, they discovered Nicanor fallen there in all his armor;
29. so they raised tumultuous shouts in their ancestral language in praise of the divine Sovereign.
30. Then Judas, that man who was ever in body and soul the chief defender of his fellow citizens, and had maintained from youth his affection for his compatriots, ordered Nicanor’s head and right arm up to the shoulder to be cut off and taken to Jerusalem.
31. When he arrived there, he assembled his compatriots, stationed the priests before the altar, and sent for those in the citadel.
32. He showed them the vile Nicanor’s head and the wretched blasphemer’s arm that had been boastfully stretched out against the holy dwelling of the Almighty.