1 Maccabees 7:19-21

Good News Translation

     ¹⁹ Bacchides left Jerusalem and set up his headquarters at Beth Zaith. He ordered the arrest of some of the faithful Jews and even many of the renegades who had willingly joined him; he had them killed and thrown into a deep pit. ²⁰ Bacchides put the country under the control of Alcimus, left troops there to help him, and returned to the king.