1 Maccabees 6:3

3 Therefore he came and sought to take the city and to despoil it; but he was not able, because those of the city, having had warning thereof,

1 Maccabees 6:3 In-Context

1 About that time King Antiochus, traveling through the high countries, heard it said that Elymais in the country of Persia was a city greatly renowned for riches, silver, and gold,

2 and that there was in it a very rich temple, wherein were shields of gold and breastplates and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king who reigned first among the Grecians, had left there.

3 Therefore he came and sought to take the city and to despoil it; but he was not able, because those of the city, having had warning thereof,

4 rose up against him in battle. So he fled and departed thence with great heaviness, and returned to Babylon.

5 Moreover, there came one who brought him tidings in Persia that the armies which went against the land of Judea were put to flight,