1 Maccabees 2:41-43

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴¹ And they determined in that day, saying: Whosoever shall come up against us to fight on the sabbath day, we will fight against him: and we will not all die, as our brethren that were slain in the secret places.

⁴² Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law.

⁴³ And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them.