1 Maccabees 6:5-7

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Then someone came to him in Persia and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been routed; ⁶ that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews;^[a] that the Jews^[b] had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils that they had taken from the armies they had cut down; ⁷ that they had torn down the abomination that he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his town.