1 Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.
2 Wherefore they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that was among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.
3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idume´a at Akrab´bin, because they besieged Israel: and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.
4 Also he remembered the injury of the children of Be´on, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them in the ways.