1 Maccabees 5:14

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

1 Maccabees 5:14 In-Context

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

15 and said, "They of Ptolemais, and of Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles are assembled together against us to consume us."

16 Now when Judas and the people heard these words, there assembled a great congregation together to consider what they should do for their brethren who were in trouble and assaulted by them.