2 Maccabees 5:25-27

Good News Translation

²⁵ Apollonius arrived in Jerusalem, pretending to be on a peace mission. Then on a Sabbath, when all the Jews were observing the day of rest, he led his troops, who were fully armed, in a parade outside the city. ²⁶ Suddenly he commanded his men to kill everyone who had come out to see them. They rushed into the city and murdered a great many people.

²⁷ But Judas Maccabeus and about nine others escaped into the barren mountains, where they lived like wild animals. In order not to defile themselves, they ate only plants which they found growing there.