snare and an offence unto the people, in that they
lay in wait for them in the ways.

1 Mac 5:5
He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against
them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that
place with fire, and all that were therein.

1 Mac 5:6
Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he
found a mighty power, and much people, with Timotheus their
captain.

1 Mac 5:7
So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were
discomfited before him; and he smote them.

1 Mac 5:8
And when he had taken Jazar, with the towns belonging
thereto, he returned into Judea.

1 Mac 5:9
Then the heathen that were at Galaad assembled themselves
together against the Israelites that were in their quarters, to
destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema.

1 Mac 5:10
And sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, The heathen
that are round about us are assembled together against us to
destroy us:

1 Mac 5:11
And they are preparing to come and take the fortress
whereunto we are fled, Timotheus being captain of their host.

1 Mac 5:12
Come now therefore, and deliver us from their hands, for many
of us are slain:

1 Mac 5:13
Yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tobie are
put to death: their wives and their children also they have
carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have
destroyed there about a thousand men.

1 Mac 5:14
While these letters were yet reading, behold, there came
other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who
reported on this wise,

1 Mac 5:15
And said, They of Ptolemais, and of Tyrus, and Sidon, and all
Galilee of the Gentiles, are assembled together against us to
consume us.

1 Mac 5:16
Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there
assembled a great congregation together, to consult what they
should do for their brethren, that were in trouble, and
assaulted of them.

1 Mac 5:17
Then said Judas unto Simon his brother, Choose thee out men,
and go and deliver thy brethren that are in Galilee, for I and
Jonathan my brother will go into the country of Galaad.

1 Mac 5:18
So he left Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains
of the people, with the remnant of the host in Judea to keep it.

1 Mac 5:19
Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of
this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen
until the time that we come again.

1 Mac 5:20
Now