1 Maccabees 1:31-33

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³¹ And he spoke to them peaceable words in deceit: and they believed him.

³² And he fell upon the city suddenly, and struck it with a great slaughter, and destroyed much people in Israel.

³³ And he took the spoils of the city, and burnt it with fire, and threw down the houses thereof, and the walls thereof round about: