1 Maccabees 5:57

57 So they said, "Let us also make a name for ourselves; let us go and make war on the Gentiles around us."

1 Maccabees 5:57 In-Context

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

56 Joseph son of Zechariah, and Azariah, the commanders of the forces, heard of their brave deeds and of the heroic war they had fought.

57 So they said, "Let us also make a name for ourselves; let us go and make war on the Gentiles around us."

58 So they issued orders to the men of the forces that were with them and marched against Jamnia.

59 Gorgias and his men came out of the town to meet them in battle.