1 Maccabees 6:5-7

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁵ Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed; ⁶ that Lys′ias 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 which they had taken from the armies they had cut down; ⁷ that they had torn down the abomination which he had erected upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his city.