4 while the division was absent from the camp.
5 So when Gorgias entered Judas’ camp during the night, there was no one there. He started looking for them in the hills, because he said, "These men are running away from us."
6 At daybreak, Judas appeared in the plain with three thousand men. But they didn’t have armor and swords such as they would have liked.
7 They saw the Gentile camp, strongly fortified, surrounded by cavalry clearly trained in warfare.
8 Judas said to those who were with him: "Don’t fear their numbers or be afraid when they charge.
9 Remember how our ancestors were saved at the Red Sea, when Pharaoh was pursuing them with his forces.
10 So let’s cry to heaven to see if the heavenly one will favor us and remember his covenant with our ancestors and crush this army in front of us today.