1 Maccabees 6:4-6

Common English Bible

⁴ They resisted him in battle, and he fled. With great disappointment, he planned to return to Babylon.

⁵ While King Antiochus was in Persia, someone came to him and reported that the armies that had gone into the land of Judah had been thoroughly defeated. ⁶ Lysias, who had gone first with a strong force, had turned and run from the Jews. The Jews then grew stronger when they took weapons, supplies, and abundant spoils from the armies they defeated.