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18 And dread and trembling fell into all the people, for they said, There is not truth and doom in them; for they have broken the statute, or (the) ordinance, and the oath that they swore.

19 And Bacchides moved tents from Jerusalem, and applied into Bethzaith (or and encamped at Bethzaith); and sent (for), and caught many of them that fled from him; and he killed some of the people, and casted (them) into a great pit.

20 And he betook the country to Alcimus, and left with him help, into (the) helping of him. And Bacchides went to the king,

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