1 Maccabees 3:40-42

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁰ So they went forth with all their power, and came, and pitched near Emmaus in the plain country.

⁴¹ And the merchants of the countries heard the fame of them: and they took silver and gold in abundance, and servants: and they came into the camp, to buy the children of Israel for slaves: and there were joined to them the forces of Syria, and of the land of the strangers.

⁴² And Judas and his brethren saw that evils were multiplied, and that the armies approached to their borders: and they knew the orders the king had given to destroy the people and utterly abolish them.