1 Maccabees 9:26-28

Common English Bible

²⁶ They hunted down Judas’ friends and brought them to Bacchides. He took vengeance on them and treated them terribly. ²⁷ So there was great distress in Israel, the worst since the time when prophets ceased to appear among them.

²⁸ Then the other friends of Judas assembled and said to Jonathan,