1 Maccabees 6:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ And unless thou speedily prevent them, they will do greater things than these, and thou shalt not be able to subdue them.

²⁸ Now when the king heard this, he was angry: and he called together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and them that were over the horsemen.

²⁹ There came also to him from other realms, and from the islands of the sea hired troops.