2 Maccabees 8:6-8

Common English Bible

⁶ He would come suddenly into towns and villages, set them ablaze, capture a number of the strategically important places, and put many of the enemy to flight. ⁷ He especially found the night advantageous for such attacks. Talk of his good courage spread everywhere.

⁸ Philip saw how Judas was progressing little by little and gaining ground with each success, so he wrote to Ptolemy the governor of Coele-Syria and Phoenicia to come to the aid of the royal government.