1 Maccabees 6:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ While he was still in Persia, a messenger brought him the news that the armies that had invaded the land of Judah had been routed, ⁶ that Lysias—who had advanced with a massive force—had been put to flight by the Israelites, that the Israelites had grown increasingly strong as a result of the weapons, equipment, and abundant spoils they had captured from the armies they had destroyed, ⁷ that they had pulled down the Abomination he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as they had done in the past and had fortified his city of Beth-zur.