2 Maccabees 11:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ And to make a gain of the temple, as of the other temples of the Gentiles, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:

⁴ Never considering the power of God, but puffed up in mind, and trusting in the multitude of his foot soldiers, and the thousands of his horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.

⁵ So he came into Judea, and approaching to Bethsura, which was in a narrow place, the space of five furlongs from Jerusalem, he laid siege to that fortress.