And he came out with three thousand infantry and four hundred cavalry: The pronoun he refers to Gorgias, not to Judas. Good News Bible makes this clear by joining this sentence to the previous verse.

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 1-2 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). New York: UBS, 2011. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.