2 Maccabees 12:31-33

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition

³¹ they thanked them and exhorted them to be well disposed to their race in the future also. Then they went up to Jerusalem, as the Festival of Weeks was close at hand.^(A)

Judas Defeats Gorgias

³² After the festival called Pentecost, they hurried against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea,^{(B) 33} who came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry.