Judas routs the king’s army. Gorgias flies before him. Lysias comes
against him with a great army, but is defeated. Judas cleanses the
temple, sets up a new altar, and fortifies the sanctuary.
4:1. Then Gorgias took five thousand men, and a thousand of the best
horsemen; and they removed out of the camp by night.
4:2. That they might come upon the camp of the Jews and strike them
suddenly: and the men that were of the castle were their guides.
4:3. And Judas heard of it, and rose up, he and the valiant men, to
attack the king’s forces that were in Emmaus.