1 Maccabees 5:1-3

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

5 Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up as before, that they were exceeding angry.

² And they thought to destroy the generation of Jacob that were among them, and they began to kill some of the people, and to persecute them.

³ Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea, and them that were in Acrabathane: because they beset the Israelites around about, and he made a great slaughter of them.