1 Maccabees 5:14-16

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

¹⁴ While the letter was still being read, other messengers, with their garments torn, came from Galilee and made a similar report; ¹⁵ they said that the people of Ptolemais and Tyre and Sidon, and all Galilee of the Gentiles,^[a] had gathered together against them ‘to annihilate us.’ ¹⁶ When Judas and the people heard these messages, a great assembly was called to determine what they should do for their kindred who were in distress and were being attacked by enemies.^[b]