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The Guerrilla Warfare of Mattathias

27 Then Mattathias went through the town shouting,
    Everyone who is faithful to God's covenant and obeys his Law, follow me! 28 With this, he and his sons fled to the mountains, leaving behind all they owned.

29-30 At that time also many of the Israelites who were seeking to be right with God through obedience to the Law went out to live in the wilderness, taking their children, their wives, and their livestock with them, because of the terrible oppression they were suffering.

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