1 Maccabees 5:13-15

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¹³ and all our kindred who were in the land of Tobias have been killed; the enemy^[a] have captured their wives and children and goods and have destroyed about a thousand persons there.”^(A)

¹⁴ While the letters were still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;^{(B) 15} they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon and all Galilee of the gentiles^[b] had gathered together against them “to annihilate us.”^(C)