1 Maccabees 9:38-40

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁸ And the remembered the blood of John their brother: and they went up, and hid themselves under the covert of the mountain.

³⁹ And they lifted up their eyes, and saw: and behold a tumult, and great preparation: and the bridegroom came forth, and his friends, and his brethren to meet them with timbrels, and musical instruments, and many weapons.

⁴⁰ And they rose up against them from the place where they lay in ambush, and slew them, and there fell many wounded, and the rest fled into the mountains, and they took all their spoils: