1 Now Gorgias took five thousand infantry and a thousand picked cavalry, and this detachment set out at night
2 in order to fall upon the camp of the Jews in a surprise attack. Some from the citadel were his guides.
3 Judas heard of it and himself set out with his soldiers to attack the king’s army at Emmaus
4 while these forces were still scattered away from the camp.
5 During the night Gorgias came into the camp of Judas, and found no one there; so he sought them in the mountains, saying, “They are fleeing from us.”