1 Maccabees 6:5

5 While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated.

1 Maccabees 6:5 In-Context

3 So he went and tried to take the city by force and plunder it. But he was unsuccessful because the city's inhabitants knew about his plan.

4 They resisted him in battle, and he fled. With great disappointment, he planned to return to Babylon.

5 While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated.

6 Lysias, who had gone first with a strong force, had turned and run from the Jews. The Jews then grew stronger when they took weapons, supplies, and abundant spoils from the armies they defeated.

7 They had taken down the disgusting thing that he had set up on the altar in Jerusalem. Furthermore, they had surrounded the sanctuary and also his town Beth-zur with high walls like before.