1 Maccabees 5:21
“Simon engages in many battles with the nations when holy preachers throughout the whole world strive to overthrow idolatry and the confused errors of the nations; and the nations are crushed before their face when they lay aside their stubbornness in resisting the Gospel of God. He pursued them as far as the gate of P…”
21Then went Simon into Galilee, where he fought many battles with the heathen, so that the heathen were discomfited by him.
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19Unto whom he gave commandment, saying, Take ye the charge of this people, and see that ye make not war against the heathen until the time that we come again.
20Now unto Simon were given three thousand men to go into Galilee, and unto Judas eight thousand men for the country of Galaad.
— 1 Maccabees 5:21 —
22And he pursued them unto the gate of Ptolemais; and there were slain of the heathen about three thousand men, whose spoils he took.
23And those that were in Galilee, and in Arbattis, with their wives and their children, and all that they had, took he away with him, and brought them into Judea with great joy.