37. You did choose this house to be called by your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people:
38. take vengeance on this man and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to live any longer.
39. And Nicanor went forth from Jerusalem, and encamped in Bethhoron, and there met him the host of Syria.
40. And Judas encamped in Adasa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed and said,
41. When they that came from the king blasphemed, your angel went out, and struck among them a hundred and fourscore and five thousand.
42. Even so discomfit you this army before us today, and let all the rest know that he has spoken wickedly against your sanctuary, and judge you him according to his wickedness.
43. And on the thirteenth day of the month Adar the armies joined battle: and Nicanor’s army was discomfited, and he himself was the first to fall in the battle.
44. Now when his army saw that Nicanor was fallen, they cast away their arms, and fled.
45. And they pursued after them a day’s journey from Adasa until you come to Gazara, and they sounded an alarm after them with the solemn trumpets.
46. And they came forth out of all the villages of Judaea round about, and closed them in; and these turned them back on those, and they all fell by the sword, and there was not one of them left.
47. And they took the spoils, and the booty, and they struck off Nicanor’s head, and his right hand, which he stretched out so haughtily, and brought them, and hanged them up beside Jerusalem.
48. And the people were exceeding glad, and they kept that day as a day of great gladness.
49. And they ordained to keep this day year by year, to wit, the thirteenth day of Adar.
50. And the land of Judah had rest a little while.