1 Maccabees 11:62-64

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶² And the men of Gaza made supplication to Jonathan, and he gave them the right hand: and he took their sons for hostages, and sent them to Jerusalem: and he went through the country as far as Damascus.

⁶³ And Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come treacherously to Cades, which is in Galilee, with a great army, purposing to remove him from the affairs of the kingdom:

⁶⁴ And he went against them: but left his brother Simon in the country.