1 Maccabees 7:38-40

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³⁸ Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

³⁹ Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem, and encamped near to Bethoron: and an army of Syria joined him.

⁴⁰ But Judas pitched in Adarsa with three thousand men: and Judas prayed, and said: