2 Maccabees 1:10
“Aristobulus was by birth a Jew, but is acknowledged to have been a Peripatetic philosopher, who wrote Commentaries of explanations on Moses for Ptolemy Philometor, as the chronographers report, at which time Antiochus Epiphanes was ruling Syria and Asia.”
Source: Septuagint
10In the hundred fourscore and eighth year, the people that were at Jerusalem and in Judea, and the council, and Judas, sent greeting and health unto Aristobulus, King Ptolemy’s master, who was of the stock of the anointed priests, and to the Jews that were in Egypt:
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8and burned the porch, and shed innocent blood: then we prayed unto the Lord, and were heard; we offered also sacrifices and fine flour, and lighted the lamps, and set forth the loaves.
9And now see that ye keep the feast of tabernacles in the month Chislev.
— 2 Maccabees 1:10 —
11Insomuch as God hath delivered us from great perils, we thank him highly, as having been in battle against a king.
12For he cast them out that fought within the holy city.