1 Maccabees 12:23-25

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²³ And we also have written back to you: That our cattle, and our possessions are yours: and yours, ours. We therefore have commanded that these things should be told you.

²⁴ Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him.

²⁵ So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country.