Preparations for Battle

³⁸ Lysias chose Ptolemy son of Dorymenes and Nicanor and Gorgias, able men among the Friends of the king,^(A)

Success at Hebron and Philistia

⁶⁵ Then Judas and his brothers went out and fought the descendants of Esau in the land to the south. He struck Hebron and its villages and tore down its strongholds and burned its towers on all sides.^(A)

Campaign in Idumea

¹⁴ When Gorgias became governor of the region, he maintained a force of mercenaries and at every turn kept attacking the Jews.^(A)

¹⁵ Besides this, the Idumeans, who had control of important strongholds, were harassing the Jews; they received those who were banished from Jerusalem and endeavored to keep up the war.^(A)

The Coming of the Holy Spirit

2 When the day of Pentecost had come, they were all together in one place.^(A)