1 Maccabees 5:25-27

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁵ They encountered the Nabateans, who met them peaceably and told them all that had happened to their kindred in Gilead: ²⁶ ‘Many of them have been shut up in Bozrah and Bosor, in Alema and Chaspho, Maked and Carnaim’—all these towns were strong and large— ²⁷ ‘and some have been shut up in the other towns of Gilead; the enemy^[a] are getting ready to attack the strongholds tomorrow and capture and destroy all these people in a single day.’