1 Maccabees 16:19-21

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁹ And he sent others to Gazara to kill John: and to the tribunes he sent letters to come to him, and that he would give them silver, and gold, and gifts.

²⁰ And he sent others to take Jerusalem, and the mountain of the temple.

²¹ Now one running before, told John in Gazara, that his father and his brethren were slain, and that he hath sent men to kill thee also.