2 Maccabees 4:40-42

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁴⁰ And since the crowds were becoming aroused and filled with anger, Lysim′achus armed about three thousand men and launched an unjust attack, under the leadership of a certain Aura′nus,^[a] a man advanced in years and no less advanced in folly. ⁴¹ But when the Jews^[b] became aware of Lysim′achus’ attack, some picked up stones, some blocks of wood, and others took handfuls of the ashes that were lying about, and threw them in wild confusion at Lysim′achus and his men. ⁴² As a result, they wounded many of them, and killed some, and put them all to flight; and the temple robber himself they killed close by the treasury.