¹⁷ Then Judas said to his brother Simon, “Choose your men and go and rescue your kindred in Galilee; Jonathan my brother and I will go to Gilead.”^(A)

⁴³ Now Eleazar, called Avaran, saw that one of the animals was equipped with royal armor. It was taller than all the others, and he supposed that the king was on it.^(A)

²³ Besides, he appointed Eleazar to read aloud^[a] from the holy book and gave the watchword, “The help of God”; then, leading the first division himself, he joined battle with Nicanor.^(A)