1 Maccabees 4:27-29

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

²⁷ And when he heard these things, he was amazed and discouraged: because things had not succeeded in Israel according to his mind, and as the king had commanded.

²⁸ So the year following Lysias gathered together threescore thousand chosen men, and five thousand horsemen, that he might subdue them.

²⁹ And they came into Judea, and pitched their tents in Bethoron, and Judas met them with ten thousand men.