1 Maccabees 16:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

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

Murder of Simon and His Sons

¹¹ Now Ptol′emy the son of Abu′bus had been appointed governor over the plain of Jericho, and he had much silver and gold,