1 Maccabees 16:16-18

New Catholic Bible

¹⁶ When Simon and his sons were drunk, Ptolemy and his men rose up and seized their weapons. Rushing against Simon in the banquet hall, they killed him and his two sons and some of his servants. ¹⁷ By this act of vicious treachery he returned evil for good.

¹⁸ Then Ptolemy wrote a report about his deed and forwarded it to the king, asking that troops be sent to aid him and that the country and its towns be placed under his rule.