1 Maccabees 5:10

10 and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren: "The heathen who are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us.

1 Maccabees 5:10 In-Context

8 And when he had taken Jazer, with the towns belonging thereto, he returned into Judea.

9 Then the heathen who were at Gilead assembled themselves together against the Israelites who were in their borders to destroy them; but they fled to the fortress of Dathema,

10 and sent letters unto Judas and his brethren: "The heathen who are round about us are assembled together against us to destroy us.

11 And they are preparing to come and take the fortress whereunto we have fled, Timothy being captain of their host.

12 Come now therefore and deliver us from their hands, for many of us have been slain.