1 Maccabees 5:14

14 While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;

1 Maccabees 5:14 In-Context

12 Now then, come and rescue us from their hands, for many of us have fallen,

13 and all our kindred who were in the land of Tob have been killed; the enemy have captured their wives and children and goods, and have destroyed about a thousand persons there."

14 While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report;

15 they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles, had gathered together against them "to annihilate us."

16 When Judas and the people heard these messages, a great assembly was called to determine what they should do for their kindred who were in distress and were being attacked by enemies.