1 Maccabees 2:29-31

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁹ Then many that sought after judgment, and justice, went down into the desert:

³⁰ And they abode there, they and their children, and their wives, and their cattle: because afflictions increased upon them.

³¹ And it was told to the king's men, and to the army that was in Jerusalem in the city of David, that certain men who had broken the king's commandment, were gone away into the secret places in the wilderness, and that many were gone after them.