¹⁵ and all those in the rear fell by the sword. They pursued them to Gazara and to the plains of Idumea and to Azotus and Jamnia, and three thousand of them fell.^(A)

⁷ He found the nights most advantageous for such attacks. And talk of his valor spread everywhere.^(A)

¹⁵ He gave his troops the watchword, “God’s victory,” and with a picked force of the bravest young men, he attacked the king’s pavilion at night and killed as many as two thousand men in the camp. He stabbed^[a] the leading elephant and its rider.^(A)