1 Maccabees 9:4

²Who went forth by the way that leadeth to Galgala, and pitched their tents before Masaloth, which is in Arbela, and after they had won it, they slew much people.

³Also the first month of the hundred fifty and second year they encamped before Jerusalem:

— 1 Maccabees 9:4 —

⁵Now Judas had pitched his tents at Eleasa, and three thousand chosen men with him:

⁶Who seeing the multitude of the other army to he so great were sore afraid; whereupon many conveyed themselves out of the host, insomuch as abode of them no more but eight hundred men.