1 Maccabees 7:22-24

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

²² and all who were troubling their people joined him. They gained control of the land of Judah and did great damage in Israel. ²³ And Judas saw all the evil that Al′cimus and those with him had done among the sons of Israel; it was more than the Gentiles had done. ²⁴ So Judas^[a] went out into all the surrounding parts of Judea, and took vengeance on the men who had deserted, and he prevented those in the city^[b] from going out into the country.