6. And the lawless shrunk for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were sore troubled, and salvation prospered in his hand.
7. And he angered many kings, and made Jacob glad with his acts, and his memorial is blessed for ever.
8. And he went about among the cities of Judah, and destroyed the ungodly out of the land, and turned away wrath from Israel:
9. and he was renowned to the utmost part of the earth, and he gathered together such as were ready to perish.
10. And Apollonius gathered the Gentiles together, and a great host from Samaria, to fight against Israel.
11. And Judas perceived it, and he went forth to meet him, and struck him, and killed him: and many fell wounded to death, and the rest fled.
12. And they took their spoils, and Judas took the sword of Apollonius, and therewith he fought all his days.
13. And Seron, the commander of the host of Syria, heard say that Judas had gathered a gathering and a congregation of faithful men with him, and of such as went out to war;
14. And he said, I will make myself a name and get me glory in the kingdom; and I will fight against Judas and them that are with him, that set at nothing the word of the king.
15. And there went up with him also a mighty army of the ungodly to help him, to take vengeance on the children of Israel.
16. And he came near to the going up of Bethhoron, and Judas went forth to meet him with a small company.
17. But when they saw the army coming to meet them, they said to Judas, What? shall we be able, being a small company, to fight against so great and strong a multitude? and we for our part are faint, having tasted no food this day.
18. And Judas said, It is an easy thing for many to be shut up in the hands of a few; and with heaven it is all one, to save by many or by few:
19. for victory in battle stands not in the multitude of a host; but strength is from heaven.
20. They come to us in fulness of insolence and lawlessness, to destroy us and our wives and our children, for to spoil us:
21. but we fight for our lives and our laws.
22. And he himself will discomfit them before our face: but as for you, be you⌃ not afraid of them.
23. Now when he had left off speaking, he leapt suddenly upon them, and Seron and his army were discomfited before him.
24. And they pursued them in the going down of Bethhoron to the plain, and there fell of them about eight hundred men; but the residue fled into the land of the Philistines.
25. And the fear of Judas and his brethren, and the dread of them, began to fall upon the nations round about them:
26. and his name came near even to the king, and every nation told of the battles of Judas.