21. And Simon went into Galilee, and fought many battles with the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were discomfited before him.
22. And he pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; and there fell of the Gentiles about three thousand men, and he took their spoils.
23. And they took to them those that were in Galilee, and in Arbatta, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, and brought them into Judaea with great gladness.
24. And Judas Maccabaeus and his brother Jonathan passed over Jordan, and went three days’ journey in the wilderness;
25. and they met with the Nabathaeans, and these met them in a peaceful manner, and told them all things that had befallen their brethren in the land of Gilead:
26. and how that many of them were shut up in Bosora, and Bosor, and Alema, Casphor, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great: