2 Maccabees 12:31-33

Common English Bible

³¹ They thanked them and encouraged them also to be well-disposed toward their people in the future as well. Then they returned to Jerusalem since the Festival of Weeks was about to begin.

³² After the Festival of Pentecost they moved against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea. ³³ He came out with three thousand foot soldiers and four hundred horses.