1 Maccabees 4:25-27
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
25 Thus Israel experienced a great deliverance that day.
Victory over Lysias. 26 (A)But those of the foreigners who had escaped went and told Lysias all that had occurred. 27 When he heard it he was disturbed and discouraged, because things had not turned out in Israel as he intended and as the king had ordered.
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