1 Maccabees 6:27-29

Common English Bible

²⁷ Unless you do something soon to prevent them, they’ll do even worse things. Then you won’t be able to stop them.”

²⁸ The king was enraged when he heard this. He gathered all his chief political advisors,^[a] the commanders of his troops, and those with authority. ²⁹ Mercenary forces from other kingdoms and the Mediterranean islands also joined him.