1 Maccabees 11:61-63

Good News Translation

⁶¹ Then he went to Gaza, but the people there barred their gates against him. So he laid siege to the city and burned and looted the surrounding area. ⁶² The people of Gaza then asked for peace, and Jonathan arranged a truce. He took the sons of the leaders and sent them to Jerusalem as hostages. After that he marched on as far as Damascus.

⁶³ Jonathan learned that the officers of Demetrius had come to Kedesh in Galilee with a large army, intending to keep him from carrying out his plan.