30 In close combat with the supporters of Timothy and Bacchides, they killed more than twenty thousand men and easily took control over some high fortresses. The war spoils that they took they divided equally between themselves and those suffering torture: the orphans, the widows, and also the elderly.
31 They carefully placed the captured armor all together in strategic places, but the rest of the spoils they carried into Jerusalem.
32 They killed the commander of Timothy’s troops, a most ungodly man who had caused grief to many Jews.
33 While celebrating victory in their homeland, they burned alive those who had set on fire the sacred gates, including Callisthenes, who had fled into a small house, so that he received the just reward for his sin.
34 But the utterly corrupt Nicanor, who had invited one thousand merchants for the sale of the Jews,
35 was humiliated with the Lord’s help by those he despised the most. He stripped off his stately uniform and traveled into Antioch by the inland road like a lone fugitive, having succeeded only in destroying his own army.
36 The one who accepted the mission to collect the tribute for the Romans from the Jerusalem prisoners of war announced publicly that the Jews had a defender and that, as a result, the Jews couldn’t be defeated because they followed God’s ordained laws.