1 Maccabees 9:59-61

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵⁹ So they went, and gave him counsel.

⁶⁰ And he arose to come with a great army: and he sent secretly letters to his adherents that were in Judea, to seize upon Jonathan, and them that were with him: but they could not, for their design was known to them.

⁶¹ And he apprehended of the men of the country, that were the principal authors of the mischief, fifty men, and slew them.