1 Maccabees 5:12-14

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹² Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of us are slain.

¹³ And all our brethren that were in the places of Tubin, are killed: and they have carried away their wives, and their children, captives, and taken their spoils, and they have slain there almost a thousand men.

¹⁴ And while they were yet reading these letters, behold there came other messengers out of Galilee with their garments rent, who related according to these words: