1 Maccabees 12:51-53

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⁵¹ When their pursuers saw that they would fight for their lives, they turned back. ⁵² So they all reached the land of Judah safely, and they mourned for Jonathan and his companions and were in great fear, and all Israel mourned deeply.^{(A) 53} All the nations around them tried to destroy them, for they said, “They have no leader or helper. Now, therefore, let us make war on them and blot out the memory of them from humankind.”^(B)