22 they fled all of them into the land of the Philistines.
23 And Judas returned to spoil the camp, and they got much gold, and silver, and blue, and sea purple, and great riches.
24 And they returned home, and sang a song of thanksgiving, and gave praise to heaven; because his mercy is good, because his mercy endures for ever.
25 And Israel had a great deliverance that day.
26 But the strangers, as many as had escaped, came and told Lysias all the things that had happened:
27 but when he heard thereof, he was confounded and discouraged, because neither had such things as he would been done to Israel, nor had such things as the king commanded him come to pass.
28 And in the next year he gathered together threescore thousand chosen footmen, and five thousand horse, that he might subdue them.