1. And it happened that, when the surrounding nations heard that the altar and the sanctuary had been rebuilt as before, they were very angry.
2. And they intended to destroy the people of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.
3. Then Judas defeated in warfare the sons of Esau in Idumea, and those who were in Akrabattene, because they besieged the Israelites, and he struck them with a great scourging.
4. And he remembered the malice of the sons of Baean, who were a snare and a scandal to the people, lying in ambush for them in the way.