3 Maccabees 1:7

⁵It thus fell out that their enemies were defeated in hand-to-hand encounter, and that many of them were taken prisoners.

⁶Having vanquished this attempt, the king then decided to proceed to the neighboring cities, and encourage them.

— 3 Maccabees 1:7 —

⁸The Jews also sent some of their council and of their elders to him. The greetings, guest gifts, and congratulations on the past, bestowed by them, filled him with the greater eagerness to visit their city.

⁹Having arrived at Jerusalem, sacrificed, and offered thank offerings to the Greatest God, and done whatever else was suitable to the sanctity of the place, and entered the inner court,