35. And they hasted to give them battle.
36. And they answered them not, neither cast they a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,
37. saying, Let us die all in our innocency: heaven and earth witness over us, that you⌃ put us to death without trial.
38. And they rose up against them in battle on the Sabbath, and they died, they and their wives and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand souls.
39. And Mattathias and his friends knew it, and they mourned over them exceedingly.
40. And one said to another, If we all do as our brethren have done, and fight not against the Gentiles for our lives and our ordinances, they will now quickly destroy us from off the earth.
41. And they took counsel on that day, saying, whoever shall come against us to battle on the Sabbath day, let us fight against him, and we shall in no wise all die, as our brethren died in the secret places.
42. Then were gathered together to them a company of Hasidaeans, mighty men of Israel, every one that offered himself willingly for the law.
43. And all they that fled from the evils were added to them, and became a stay to them.
44. And they mustered a host, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath: and the rest fled to the Gentiles for safety.
45. And Mattathias and his friends went round about, and pulled down the altars;
46. and they circumcised by force the children that were uncircumcised, as many as they found in the coasts of Israel.
47. And they pursued after the sons of pride, and the work prospered in their hand.
48. And they rescued the law out of the hand of the Gentiles, and out of the hand of the kings, neither suffered they the sinner to triumph.