1 Maccabees 12:25

²³We do write back again to you, that your cattle and goods are ours, and ours are yours. We do command therefore our ambassadors to make report unto you on this wise.

²⁴Now when Jonathan heard that Demetrius’ princes were come to fight against him with a greater host than afore,

— 1 Maccabees 12:25 —

²⁶He sent spies also unto their tents, who came again, and told him that they were appointed to come upon them in the night season.

²⁷Wherefore so soon as the sun was down, Jonathan commanded his men to watch, and to be in arms, that all the night long they might be ready to fight: also he sent forth sentinels round about the host.