1 Maccabees 5:8

8 And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.

1 Maccabees 5:8 In-Context

6 Afterward he passed over to the children of Ammon, where he found a mighty power and many people, with Timothy their captain.

7 So he fought many battles with them, till at length they were discomfited before him; and he smote them.

8 And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.

9 Then the heathen who were at Gilead assembled themselves together against the Israelites who were in their borders to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema,

10 and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren: "The heathen who are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us.