1 Maccabees 5:45-47

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁵ And Judas gathered together all the Israelites that were in the land of Galaad, from the least even to the greatest, and their wives, and children, and an army exceeding great, to come into the land of Juda.

⁴⁶ And they came as far as Ephron: now this was a great city situate in the way, strongly fortified, and there was no means to turn from it on the right hand or on the left, but the way was through the midst of it.

⁴⁷ And they that were in the city, shut themselves in, and stopped up the gates with stones: and Judas sent to them with peaceable words,