16 Yohan (John) went up from Gezer and told Shim’on his father what Kendebaios was doing. 2 Shim’on called his two oldest sons, Yehudah and Yohan, and said to them, “I and my brothers and my father’s house have fought the battles of Yisrael (Israel) from our youth, even to this day; and things have prospered in our hands, that we have often delivered Yisrael. 3 But now I am old, and you moreover, by his mercy, are of a sufficient age. Take the place of me and my brother, and go out and fight for our nation; and let the help which is from heaven be with you.

4 He chose out of the country twenty thousand men of war and cavalry, and they went against Kendebaios, and slept at Modi’in. 5 Rising up in the morning, they went into the plain, and, behold, a great army of infantry and cavalry came to meet them. There was a brook between them. 6 He encamped near them, he and his people. He saw that the people were afraid to pass over the brook, and he passed over first. When the men saw him, they passed over after him. 7 He divided the people, and placed the cavalry in the middle of the infantry; but the enemies’ cavalry were exceedingly many. 8 They sounded the trumpets; and Kendebaios and his army were put to flight, and many of them fell wounded to death, but those who were left fled to the stronghold. 9 At that time Yehudah, Yohan’s brother, was wounded; but Yohan pursued after them until he came to Kidron, which Kendebaios had built. 10 They fled to the towers that are in the fields of Azotos; and he burnt it with fire. About two thousand men of them fell. Then he returned into Yehudah in peace.