1 Maccabees 5:53

53 Judas kept rallying the laggards and encouraging the people all the way until he came to the land of Judah.

1 Maccabees 5:53 In-Context

51 He destroyed every male by the edge of the sword, and razed and plundered the town. Then he passed through the town over the bodies of the dead.

52 Then they crossed the Jordan into the large plain before Beth-shan.

53 Judas kept rallying the laggards and encouraging the people all the way until he came to the land of Judah.

54 So they went up to Mount Zion with joy and gladness, and offered burnt offerings, because they had returned in safety; not one of them had fallen.

55 Now while Judas and Jonathan were in Gilead and their brother Simon was in Galilee before Ptolemais,