1 When the nations round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored as before, they were enraged.
2 So they decided to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and they began to kill and eradicate the people.
3 Then Judas attacked the Edomites at Akrabattene in Idumea, because they were blockading Israel; he dealt them a heavy blow, humbled and despoiled them.
4 He also remembered the malice of the Baeanites, who had become a snare and a stumbling block to the people by ambushing them along the roads.