before the Eylah Shemayah [God of Heaven]. And Yoḥanan spoke and said, “My God, account it not as a sin that I killed him in the Sanctuary. Thus may You do to all who came with him to oppress Judea and Jerusalem.”
And Yoḥanan the son of Matithyah went forth on that day and fought the enemy and slew many of them.
The number of the enemy which he did slay that day was seven thousand for they slew one another.
When he returned, he built a pillar which he called after his name, “Macabee, the slayer of the mighty.”