1 Maccabees 5:2

2 and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.

1 Maccabees 5:2 In-Context

1 When the Gentiles round about heard that the altar had been built and the sanctuary dedicated as it was before, they became very angry,

2 and they determined to destroy the descendants of Jacob who lived among them. So they began to kill and destroy among the people.

3 But Judas made war on the sons of Esau in Idumea, at Akrabattene, because they kept lying in wait for Israel. He dealt them a heavy blow and humbled them and despoiled them.

4 He also remembered the wickedness of the sons of Baean, who were a trap and a snare to the people and ambushed them on the highways.

5 They were shut up by him in their towers; and he encamped against them, vowed their complete destruction, and burned with fire their towers and all who were in them.