2 Maccabees 10:6
“On the day when the temple had been polluted by foreigners, etc. This feast, which is read as being celebrated on the twenty-fifth day of the month Casleu, which among the Latins is called December, is likewise mentioned in a similar way in the previous book; moreover, when it relates that they had previously kept the…”
6And they kept the eight days with gladness, as in the feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts.
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4When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations.
5Now upon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is Casleu.
— 2 Maccabees 10:6 —
7Therefore they bare branches, and fair boughs, and palms also, and sang psalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place.
8They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.