50 Then everyone prayed out loud:Where can we take these peopleto offer their sacrifices?
51 Your temple has been disgracedand made unfit for worship;the priests are humiliatedand brokenhearted.
52 Our God, you know these Gentilesare here to destroy us,
53 and there is nothing we can dowithout your help.
54 Then trumpets were blown, and everyone shouted.
55 Judas divided his army into groups of 1,000, groups of 100, groups of 50, and groups of 10, and he put an officer in charge of each group.
56 He obeyed the Law of Moses by sending home any soldier who was either building a house or engaged to get married or who was planting a vineyard or was simply afraid to fight.