1 Maccabees 6:6

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.

1 Maccabees 6:6 In-Context

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.
8 When the king heard this news, he was stunned and badly shaken. He took to his bed, sick from grief. Things hadn't turned out for him as he had planned.
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