2 Maccabees 10:7
“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…”
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.
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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.
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.
— 2 Maccabees 10:7 —
8They ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.
9And this was the end of Antiochus, called Epiphanes.