AnoteThen toke Gorgias fyue thousande
men of fote, and a thousande of the
best horsmen: and remoued by night,
to come nye where þe; Iewes hoost laye, and
so to slaye them sodenly. Now the men that
kepte the castell, were the c&obar;ueyers of them.
Then arose Iudas to smyte the chefe and
pryncipall of the kinges hoost at Emmaus,
for the army was not yet come together. In
the meane season came Gorgias by night in
to Iudas tentes: ∧ when he founde no man
there, he sought them in the mo&ubar;taynes, and
thought they had bene fled awaye because
of him. But wh&ebar; it was daie, Iudas shewed
himself in þe; felde with thre thousande men
only, which had nether harnesse ner sweardes
to their myndes.
But on the other syde, they sawe that
the Heithen were mightie and wel harnessed,
and their horsmen aboute them, and all
these wel experte in fettes of warre Then
sayde Iudas to þe; men that were with him:
noteFeare not ye the multitude of them, be not
afrayed of their violente runnynge: note remembre
how oure fathers were delyuered in the
reed see, when Pharao threatned them with
a greate hoost. noteEuen so let vs also crie now
towarde heauen: and the LORDE shall haue
mercy vpon vs, and remembre the couenaunt
of oure fathers, yee and destroye
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this hoost before oure face this daye: And
all Heithen shal knowe, that it is God himself,
which delyuereth and saueth Israel.
Then the Heithen lift vp their eyes: and
when they sawe that they were commynge
agaynst them, they wente out of their tentes
in to the battayll: and they that were &wt;
Iudas, blewe vp the trompettes. noteSo they
buckled together, and the Heithen were discomfited,
and fled ouer the playne felde: but
the hynmost of them were slayne. For they
folowed vpon them vnto Assaremoth, and
in to the feldes of Idumea towarde Azot
and Iamnia: so that there were slayne of
them vpon a thre thousande men. So Iudas
turned agayne with his hoost, and sayde
vnto the people: Be not gredy of þe; spoyles,
we haue yet a battayll to fight: for Gorgias
∧ his hoost are here by vs in the mountaynes,
but stonde ye fast agaynst oure enemies,
and ouer come them: then maye ye safely
take the spoyles.
C As Iudas was speakynge these wordes,
there apeared one parte of them vpon the
mount. But when Gorgias sawe that they
of his partie were fled, and the tentes brent
vp (for by the smoke they might vnderstonde
what was done) they perceauynge this,
were very sore afrayed: and when they sawe
also that Iudas and his hoost were in þe; felde
ready to stryke battayll, they fled euerychone
in to the londe of the Heithen.
So Iudas turned agayne to spoyle the
tentes, where they gat moch golde and syluer,
precious stones, purple ∧ greate riches.
noteThus they wente home, and sunge a Psalme
of thankesgeuynge and praysed God in heauen:
for he is gracious, and his mercy endureth
for euer: And so Israel had a greate victory
in that daye.
Now all the Heithen that escaped, came
and tolde Lysias euery thinge as it happened.
Wherfore Lysias was sore afrayed
and greued in his mynde, because Israel had
not gott&ebar; soch mysfortune as he wolde they
shulde, note nether as the kynge commaunded.
The nexte yeare folowinge, gathered Lysias
thre score thousande chosen men of fote,
and fyue thousande horsmen, to fight agaynst
them.
D So they came in to Iewry, and pitched
their tentes at Bethoron, where Iudas came
agaynst them, with ten thousande men.
And when he sawe so greate mightie an
hoost, he made his prayer and sayde: Blessed
be thou (o sauioure of Israel) note which diddest
destroye the violent power of the giaunte,
in the honde of thy seruaunt Dauid, and
gauest the hoost of the Heith&ebar; in to the honde
of Ionathas note (the sonne of Saul) and of
his weapen bearer.
Put this hoost now in to the honde of þe;
people of Israel, and let them be confounded
in their multitude and horsmen. Make
them afrayed, ∧ discomforth the boldnes of
their strength, þt; they maye be moued thorow
their destruccion. Cast them downe thorow
the swearde of thy louers, then shal all
they that knowe thy name, prayse the with
thankesgeuynge.
So they stroke the batell, and there were
slayne of Lysias hoost, fyue thousande men.
Then Lysias seynge the discomfetynge of
his men, and the manlynesse of the Iewes,
how they were ready, ether to lyue or to dye
like men: He wente vnto Antioche and chose
out men of warre: that when they were
gathered together, they might come agayne
in to Iewry. Then sayde Iudas and his
brethren: beholde, oure enemies are discomfited:
Let vs now go vp, to cl&ebar;se and to repayre
the Sanctuary.
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EnoteVpon this, all the hoost gathered them
together, and wente vp vnto mount Sion.
Now when they sawe the Sanctuary laied
waist, the aulter defyled, the dores brent vp,
the shrubbes growinge in the courtes, like
as in a wod or vpon mountaynes, yee and
that the prestes Celles were broken downe:
They rente their clothes, made greate lamentacion,
cast a&esset;shes vpon their heades, fell
downe flat to the grounde, made a greate
noyse with the trompettes, and cried towarde
heauen.
Then Iudas apoynted certayne men to
fight against those which were in the castel,
till they had clensed the Sanctuary. So he
chose prestes þt; were undefyled, soch as had
pleasure in the lawe of God: and they clensed
the Sanctuary, ∧ bare out the defyled stones
in to an vncleane place. And for so moch
-- --
as the aulter of burnofferynges was vnhalowed,
he toke aduysement, what he might
do withall: so he thought it was best to destroye
it (lest it shulde happen to do them eny
shame) for the Heithen had defyled it, ∧ therfore
they brake it downe. As for the stones,
they layed them vp vpon the mountayne by
the house in a conuenient place: till there came
a prophet to shewe, what shulde be done
with them.
FnoteSo they toke whole stones acordinge to
the lawe, and buylded a new aulter soch one
as was before, and made vp the Sanctuary
within and without, and halowed the courtes.
They made new ornamentes, ∧ brought
þe; candilsticke, the aulter of incense, and the
table in to the temple. The incense layed they
vpon the aulter, ∧ lighted the lampes which
were vpon the candilsticke, that they might
burne in the temple. They set the shewbred
vpon the table, and hanged vp the vale, and
set vp þe; temple, as it was afore. noteAnd vpon
the xxv. daye of the ix. moneth (which is called
the moneth of Casleu) in the C .xlviij. yeare:
they rose vp by tymes in the mornynge
for to do sacrifice (acordinge to the lawe) vpon
the new burntoffrynge aulter, that they
had made: after the tyme and season that þe;
Heithen had defyled it. The same daye was
it set vp agayne, with songes pipes, harpes
and cymbales.
G And all the people fell vpon their faces,
worshippynge and thankynge the God of
heauen, which had geuen them the victory.
noteSo they kepte the dedicacion of the aulter
viij. dayes, offerynge burntsacrifices and
thankofferinges with gladnesse. They deckte
the temple also with crownes and shyldes
of golde, and halowed the portes and
celles, and hanged dores vpon them. Thus
was there very greate gladnes amonge the
people, because the blasphemy of the Heith&ebar;
was put awaye.
So Iudas and his brethren with the
whole c&obar;gregacion of Israel, ordened, note that
the tyme of the dedicacion of þe; aulter shulde
be kepte in his season from yeare to yeare,
by the space of viij. dayes, from the xxv.
daye of the moneth Casleu: yee and that &wt;
myrth and gladnesse.
And at the same tyme buylded they vp þe;
mount Sion with hye walles and stronge
towres rounde aboute: lest þe; Gentiles shulde
come and treade it downe, as they dyd afore.
noteTherfore Iudas set men of warre in it,
to kepe it: and made it stronge, for to defende
Bethsura: that the people might haue
a refuge agaynst the Edomites.
