1 Maccabees 6:5

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,

1 Maccabees 6:5 In-Context

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,

6 and that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power, was driven away by the Jews, and that they were made strong by the arms and power and store of spoils which they had gotten from the armies whom they had destroyed;

7 also that they had pulled down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.