1 Maccabees 5:12

¹⁰and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren, saying, The heathen that are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us:

¹¹and they are preparing to come and take the fortress where unto we are fled, Timothy being captain of their host.

— 1 Maccabees 5:12 —

¹³yea, all our brethren that were in the places of Tob are put to death: their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their stuff; and they have destroyed there about a thousand men.

¹⁴While these letters were yet being read, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported on this wise,