Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
When Lysias saw his army routed and witnessed the courage of Judas's soldiers, ready to live or die bravely, he withdrew to Antioch to recruit foreign mercenaries, planning to invade Judea again with an even larger army.
