1 Maccabees 5:20-22

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

²⁰ Then three thousand men were assigned to Simon to go to Galilee, and eight thousand to Judas for Gilead.

²¹ So Simon went to Galilee and fought many battles against the Gentiles, and the Gentiles were crushed before him. ²² He pursued them to the gate of Ptolemais; as many as three thousand of the Gentiles fell, and he despoiled them.