7:14. For they said: One that is a priest of the seed of Aaron is come, he will not deceive us.
7:15. And he spoke to them peaceably: and he swore to them, saying: We will do you no harm, nor your friends.
7:16. And they believed him. And he took threescore of them, and slew them in one day, according to the word that is written:
7:17. The flesh of thy saints, and the blood of them they have shed round about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them.
7:18. Then fear and trembling fell upon all the people: for they said: There is no truth, nor justice among them: for they have broken the covenant, and the oath which they made.
7:19. And Bacchides removed the camp from Jerusalem, and pitched in Bethzecha: and he sent, and took many of them that were fled away from him, and some of the people he killed, and threw them into a great pit.
7:20. Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king.
7:21. But Alcimus did what he could to maintain his chief priesthood.
7:22. And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.
7:23. And Judas saw all the evils that Alcimus, and they that were with him, did to the children of Israel, much more than the Gentiles.