49. And Judas commanded proclamation to be made in the army, that each man should encamp in the place where he was.
50. And the men of the host encamped, and fought against the city all that day and all that night, and the city was delivered into his hands;
51. and he destroyed all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.
52. And they went over Jordan into the great plain over against Bethshan.
53. And Judas gathered together those that lagged behind, and encouraged the people all the way through, until he came into the land of Judah.
54. And they went up to mount Sion with gladness and joy, and offered whole burnt offerings, because not so much as one of them was slain until they returned in peace.
55. And in the days when Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Gilead, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
56. Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, rulers of the host, heard of their exploits and of the war, what things they had done;
57. and they said, Let us also get us a name, and let us go fight against the Gentiles that are round about us.