1 Maccabees 5:33-35

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³³ Then he came up behind them in three companies, who sounded their trumpets and cried aloud in prayer. ³⁴ And when the army of Timothy realized that it was Maccabe′us, they fled before him, and he dealt them a heavy blow. As many as eight thousand of them fell that day.

³⁵ Next he turned aside to Al′ema,^[a][b] and fought against it and took it; and he killed every male in it, plundered it, and burned it with fire.