1 Maccabees 4:15-17

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

¹⁵ and all those in the rear fell by the sword. They pursued them to Gazara, and to the plains of Idumea, and to Azotus and Jamnia; and three thousand of them fell. ¹⁶ Then Judas and his force turned back from pursuing them, ¹⁷ and he said to the people, ‘Do not be greedy for plunder, for there is a battle before us;