2 Maccabees 10:21-23

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²¹ But when it was told Machabeus what was done, he assembled the rulers of the people, and accused those men that they had sold their brethren for money, having let their adversaries escape.

²² So he put these traitors to death, and forthwith took the two towers.

²³ And having good success in arms and in all things he took in hand, he slew more than twenty thousand in the two holds.