1 Maccabees 6:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³ So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city ⁴ and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon.

⁵ Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;