1 Maccabees 2:37-39

Common English Bible

³⁷ They said, “Let’s all die in our innocence. Heaven and earth testify on our behalf that you are killing us unjustly.” ³⁸ So the troops attacked them on the Sabbath. They died, with their wives and children and livestock, as many as one thousand people.

³⁹ When Mattathias and his friends learned about this, they deeply mourned for the dead.