1 Maccabees 9:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

² They went by the road that leads to Gilgal and encamped against Mesaloth in Arbela, and they took it and killed many people. ³ In the first month of the one hundred and fifty-second year^[a] they encamped against Jerusalem; ⁴ then they marched off and went to Berea with twenty thousand foot-soldiers and two thousand cavalry.