1 Maccabees 12:24-26

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁴ Now Jonathan heard that the generals of Demetrius were come again with a greater army than before to fight against him.

²⁵ So he went out from Jerusalem, and met them in the land of Amath: for he gave them no time to enter into his country.

²⁶ And he sent spies into their camp, and they came back and brought him word that they designed to come upon them in the night.