1 Maccabees 5:12

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

1 Maccabees 5:12 In-Context

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.

13 Yea, all our brethren who were in the places of Tob are put to death. Their wives and their children also they have carried away captives, and borne away their goods, and they have destroyed there about a thousand men."

14 While these letters were yet being read, behold, there came other messengers from Galilee with their clothes rent, who reported in this manner