1 Maccabees 6:53-55

New Catholic Bible

⁵³ However, there was no food in the storerooms because it was the sabbatical year, and those who had fled from the Gentiles and taken refuge in Judea had consumed the last of the reserves. ⁵⁴ Only a few men remained in the sanctuary; the rest scattered to their own homes, for the famine proved too severe for them.

⁵⁵ Offer of a Peace Treaty. Lysias heard that Philip, whom King Antiochus, prior to his death, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus to be king,