1 Maccabees 16:9-11

New Catholic Bible

⁹ Judas, the brother of John, fell wounded, but John pursued them until Cendebeus reached Kedron, which he had rebuilt. ¹⁰ When some of the enemy fled to the towers on the plain of Azotus, John set fire to these towers, and about two thousand of the enemy perished. He then returned safely to Judea.

¹¹ Simon Assassinated by His Son-in-Law. Ptolemy,^[a] the son of Abubus, had been appointed governor of the plain of Jericho, and he possessed a great amount of silver and gold,