Hearing that Judas was on the move against him, Timothy sent the women, the children, and the rest of the baggage on ahead into the place known as Karnaim; it was a spot hard to lay siege to and hard to get at, since every approach to it was narrow.
In context
19Dositheus and Sosipater, officers of Maccabeus, sallied forth and destroyed the troops Timothy had left behind in the fortress, more than ten thousand men. 20Maccabeus drew up the army with him company by company and set Dositheus and Sosipater over the companies; then he charged at Timothy, who had with him one hundred and twenty thousand foot soldiers along with two thousand five hundred horsemen. 21Hearing that Judas was on the move against him, Timothy sent the women, the children, and the rest of the baggage on ahead into the place known as Karnaim; it was a spot hard to lay siege to and hard to get at, since every approach to it was narrow. 22But when Judas’s first company came into view, dread fell upon the enemy, and terror at the manifestation of the one who watches all things; they broke into flight, rushing this way and that, so that often they were hurt by their own men and impaled on the sword points. 23Judas kept up the pursuit hard, stabbing the villains as he went, and brought down some thirty thousand men.
