²⁰ They come against us in great insolence and lawlessness to destroy us and our wives and our children and to despoil us,

²³ Then he took the Jews^[a] of Galilee and Arbatta, with their wives and children, and all they possessed and led them to Judea with great rejoicing.^(A)

The Return to Jerusalem

⁴⁵ Then Judas gathered together all the Israelites in Gilead, the small and the great, with their wives and children and goods, a very large company, to go to the land of Judah.

⁶ But I will avenge my nation and the sanctuary and your wives and children, for all the nations have gathered together out of hatred to destroy us.”^(A)

⁴⁵ The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes torn, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them;^(A)