1 Maccabees 16:9
“That Judas was wounded in battle and John pursued the enemies signifies, unless I am mistaken, what Paul says: “Blindness in part has come upon Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has entered in, and then all Israel will be saved” (Rom. 11:25-26). For since the Jewish people delayed in coming to faith in Christ,…”
9At that time was Judas John’s brother wounded; but John still followed after them, until he came to Cedron, which Cendebeus had built.
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7That done, he divided his men, and set the horsemen in the midst of the footmen: for the enemies’ horsemen were very many.
8Then sounded they with the holy trumpets: whereupon Cendebeus and his host were put to flight, so that many of them were slain, and the remnant gat them to the strong hold.
— 1 Maccabees 16:9 —
10So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.
11Moreover in the plain of Jericho was Ptolemeus the son of Abubus made captain, and he had abundance of silver and gold: