1 Maccabees 7:20-22

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁰ Then he committed the country to Alcimus, and left with him troops to help him. So Bacchides went away to the king:

²¹ But Alcimus did what he could to maintain his chief priesthood.

²² And they that disturbed the people resorted to him, and they got the land of Juda into their power, and did much hurt in Israel.