1 Maccabees 16:9-11

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁹ At that time Judas the brother of John was wounded, but John pursued them until Cendebeus^[a] reached Kedron, which he had built. ¹⁰ They also fled into the towers that were in the fields of Azotus, and John^[b] burned it with fire, and about two thousand of them fell. He then returned to Judea safely.

Murder of Simon and His Sons

¹¹ Now Ptolemy son of Abubus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho; he had a large store of silver and gold,