1 Maccabees 2:42-44

Wycliffe Bible

⁴² Then the synagogue of (the) Jews, strong in mights of Israel, was gathered to them. Every willful man in the law,

⁴³ and all that fled from evils, were added to them, and they were made to them to steadfastness.

⁴⁴ And they gathered an host, and smited sinners in their wrath, and wicked men in their indignation; and the others fled to (the) nations, for to escape.