2 Maccabees 12:23-25

Good News Translation

²³ So Judas and his men pursued them as hard as they could, killing at least 30,000 of the enemy. ²⁴ Timothy himself was captured by the troops of Dositheus and Sosipater. But he was very shrewd and managed to convince them that many of their relatives were his prisoners and would be put to death if anything happened to him. ²⁵ Finally, after he had promised to send their relatives home safely, they let him go free.