2 Maccabees 12:31-33

Good News Translation

³¹ So Judas and his men thanked the people and urged them to show the same good will toward the Jews in the future. Then they left for Jerusalem, where they arrived shortly before the Harvest Festival.

Judas Defeats Gorgias

^32 (A)After Pentecost (as the Harvest Festival is called in Greek) Judas and his men quickly marched out against Gorgias, the governor of Idumea, ³³ who met them with 3,000 infantry and 400 cavalry.