1 And Demetrius heard that Nicanor was fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them:
2 and they went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and got possession of it, and destroyed much people.
3 And the first month of the hundred and fifty and second year they encamped against Jerusalem:
4 and they removed, and went to Berea, with twenty thousand footmen and two thousand horse.
5 And Judas was encamped at Elasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:
6 and they saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they feared exceedingly: and many slipped away out of the army; there were not left of them more than eight hundred men.