20. but some of Simon's men were greedy, and when they were offered 64 kilogrammes of silver, they let some of the enemy escape from the forts.
21. When Judas heard what had happened, he called together the leaders of his troops and accused those men of selling their brothers by setting their enemies free to fight against them.
22. Then he executed the traitors and immediately captured the two forts.
23. Judas was always successful in battle, and in his assault on those two forts he killed more than 20,000 men.
24. Timothy, who had been defeated by the Jews once before, had gathered a large number of cavalry from Asia and a tremendous force of mercenary troops and was now advancing to take Judea by armed attack.
25. But as the enemy forces were approaching, Judas and his men prayed to God. They put on sackcloth, threw earth on their heads,