1 Maccabees 5:26

²⁴Judas Maccabeus also and his brother Jonathan went over Jordan, and traveled three days’ journey in the wilderness,

²⁵where they met with the Nabateans, who came unto them in a peaceable manner, and told them everything that had happened to their brethren in the land of Gilead:

— 1 Maccabees 5:26 —

²⁷and that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the country of Gilead, and that against tomorrow they had appointed to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.

²⁸Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bozrah; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire.