1 Maccabees 6:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ Lo, he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it: But he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.

⁴ And they rose up against him in battle, and he fled away from thence, and departed with great sadness, and returned towards Babylonia.

⁵ And whilst he was in Persia, there came one that told him, how the armies that were in the land of Juda were put to flight: