2 Maccabees 12:25
“We said in the exposition of the previous book, where Timotheus is discussed, that his army signified the crowd of heretics; likewise about the inhabitants of the city of Ephron, that they figuratively represent those who, in the times of grace, diminished the rite of Judaism, namely the Jews themselves and the hereti…”
25So when he had assured them with many words that he would restore them without hurt, according to the agreement, they let him go for the saving of their brethren.
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23Judas also was very earnest in pursuing them, killing those wicked wretches, of whom he slew about thirty thousand men.
24Moreover Timotheus himself fell into the hands of Dositheus and Sosipater, whom he besought with much craft to let him go with his life, because he had many of the Jews’ parents, and the brethren of some of them, who, if they put him to death, should not be regarded.
— 2 Maccabees 12:25 —
26Then Maccabeus marched forth to Carnion, and to the temple of Atargatis, and there he slew five and twenty thousand persons.
27And after he had put to flight and destroyed them, Judas removed the host toward Ephron, a strong city, wherein Lysias abode, and a great multitude of divers nations, and the strong young men kept the walls, and defended them mightily: wherein also was great provision of engines and darts.