1 Maccabees 2:42-44

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴² Then was assembled to them the congregation of the Assideans, the stoutest of Israel, every one that had a good will for the law.

⁴³ And all they that fled from the evils, joined themselves to them, and were a support to them.

⁴⁴ And they gathered an army, and slew the sinners in their wrath, and the wicked men in their indignation: and the rest fled to the nations for safety.