1 Maccabees 5:11-13

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹¹ They are preparing to come and capture the stronghold to which we have fled, and Timothy is leading their forces. ¹² Now then come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen, ¹³ and all our brethren who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy^[a] have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand men there.”