¹⁵ and all those in the rear fell by the sword. They pursued them to Gazara and to the plains of Idumea and to Azotus and Jamnia, and three thousand of them fell.^(A)

16 John went up from Gazara and reported to his father Simon what Cendebeus had done.^(A)

⁴ So John^[a] chose out of the country twenty thousand warriors and cavalry, and they marched against Cendebeus and camped for the night in Modein.^(A)

⁸ They sounded the trumpets, and Cendebeus and his army were put to flight; many of them fell wounded, and the rest fled into the stronghold.^(A)