59 where Gorgias and his army were stationed. The enemy came out of the fortress to fight,
60 and defeated Joseph and Azariah, chasing their troops all the way to Judea and killing about 2,000 of them.
61 This battle was lost because Azariah and Joseph disobeyed Judas and his brothers by trying to win a victory for themselves.
62 God had chosen the family of Judas to rescue Israel, and Azariah and Joseph were not from that family.
63 Judas and his brothers became even more famous among both Jews and Gentiles,
64 and people traveled to Jerusalem to honor them.
65 Judas and his brothers left Jerusalem with an army to invade the land south of them where the Idumeans lived. Their army surrounded the town of Hebron and its villages; then they destroyed its fortresses and burned its towers.