1 Maccabees 6:53

53 Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals (for it was the seventh year, and those in Judea who were delivered from the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the stores),

1 Maccabees 6:53 In-Context

51 As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days, and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.

52 Thereupon the Jews also made engines against their engines, and held them in battle a long season.

53 Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals (for it was the seventh year, and those in Judea who were delivered from the Gentiles had eaten up the residue of the stores),

54 there were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.

55 At that time Lysias heard it said that Philip (whom Antiochus the king, while he lived, had appointed to bring up his son Antiochus, that he might be king)