2 Maccabees 5:25-27

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁵ Who when he was come to Jerusalem, pretending peace, rested till the holy day of the sabbath: and then the Jews keeping holiday, he commanded his men to take arms.

²⁶ And he slew all that were come forth to see: and running through the city with armed men, he destroyed a very great multitude.

²⁷ But Judas Machabeus, who was the tenth, had withdrawn himself into a desert place, and there lived amongst wild beasts in the mountains with his company: and they continued feeding on herbs, that they might not be partakers of the pollution.