2 Maccabees 14:6-8

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁶ He answered thereunto: They among the Jews that are called Assideans, of whom Judas Machabeus is captain, nourish wars, and raise seditions, and will not suffer the realm to be in peace.

⁷ For I also being deprived of my ancestors' glory (I mean of the high priesthood) am now come hither:

⁸ Principally indeed out of fidelity to the king's interests, but in the next place also to provide for the good of my countrymen: for all our nation suffereth much from the evil proceedings of those men.