1 Then Gorgias took five thousand men and a thousand chosen horsemen, and they moved out of the camp by night,
2 so that they might set upon the camp of the Jews and strike them suddenly. And the sons who were from the stronghold were their guides.
3 And Judas heard of it, and he rose up, with his powerful men, to strike the force from the king's army that was in Emmaus.
4 For the army was still dispersed from the camp.
5 And Gorgias came by night, into the camp of Judas, and found no one, and he sought them in the mountains. For he said, "These men flee from us."