1 Maccabees 9:5-7

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵ Now Judas had pitched his tents in Laisa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

⁶ And they saw the multitude of the army that they were many, and they were seized with great fear: and many withdrew themselves out of the camp, and there remained of them no more than eight hundred men.

⁷ And Judas saw that his army slipped away, and the battle pressed upon him, and his heart was cast down: because he had not time to gather them together, and he was discouraged.