1 Maccabees 6:5

5 Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;

1 Maccabees 6:5 In-Context

3 So he came and tried to take the city and plunder it, but he could not, because his plan became known to the men of the city

4 and they withstood him in battle. So he fled and in great grief departed from there to return to Babylon.

5 Then some one came to him in Persia and reported that the armies which had gone into the land of Judah had been routed;

6 that Lysias had gone first with a strong force, but had turned and fled before the Jews; that the Jews had grown strong from the arms, supplies, and abundant spoils which they had taken from the armies they had cut down;

7 that they had torn down the abomination which he had erected upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his city.