1 Maccabees 5:10-12

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁰ And they sent letters to Judas and his brethren, saying, The heathens that are round about are gathered together against us, to destroy us:

¹¹ And they are preparing to come, and to take the fortress into which we are fled: and Timotheus is the captain of their host.

¹² Now therefore come, and deliver us out of their hands, for many of us are slain.