So they fled even unto the towers in the fields of Azotus; wherefore he burned it with fire: so that there were slain of them about two thousand men. Afterward he returned into the land of Judea in peace.
The enemy fled all the way to the towers in the fields of Ashdod, so John set the town on fire; about two thousand of the enemy were killed, and afterward he returned safely to the land of Judea.