1 Maccabees 6:27-29

New Catholic Bible

²⁷Unless you quickly make some move to impede them, they will do far worse things than these, and you will not be able to stop them.”

²⁸The Battle of Beth-zur. The king became enraged when he heard this, and he summoned all his Friends, his generals, and the commanders of his cavalry. ²⁹He also recruited mercenary forces from other kingdoms and from the islands of the seas.