1 Maccabees 4:25-27

Common English Bible

²⁵ That day Israel had a great deliverance.

First campaign of Lysias

²⁶ The foreigners who escaped went and told Lysias about all that had happened. ²⁷ When he heard it, he was perplexed and discouraged. Things hadn’t happened to Israel as he had intended, and they hadn’t turned out the way that the king commanded.