1 Maccabees 5:2

2 Therefore they thought to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

1 Maccabees 5:2 In-Context

1 Now when the nations round about heard that the altar was built and the sanctuary renewed as before, it displeased them very much.

2 Therefore they thought to destroy the descendants of Jacob who were among them, and thereupon they began to slay and destroy the people.

3 Then Judas fought against the children of Esau in Idumea at Akrabattene, because they besieged Israel; and he gave them a great overthrow, and abated their courage, and took their spoils.

4 Also he remembered the injury of the children of Baean, who had been a snare and an offense unto the people, in that they lay in wait for them on the ways.

5 He shut them up therefore in the towers, and encamped against them, and destroyed them utterly, and burned the towers of that place with fire, and all who were therein.