1 Maccabees 6:27-29

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²⁷ and unless you quickly prevent them, they will do still greater things, and you will not be able to stop them.”

²⁸ The king was enraged when he heard this. He assembled all his friends, the commanders of his forces and those in authority.^{[a] 29} And mercenary forces came to him from other kingdoms and from islands of the seas.