Now king Antiochus was going through the higher countries, and he heard that the city of Elymais in Persia, was greatly renowned, and abounding in silver and gold,

1 Maccabees 5:67
In that day some priests fell in battle, while desiring to do manfully they went out unadvisedly to fight.

1 Maccabees 5:68
And Judas turned to Azotus, into the land of the strangers, and he threw down their altars, and he burnt the statues of their gods with fire: and he took the spoils of the cities, and returned into the land of Juda.

1 Maccabees 6:2
And that there was in it a temple exceeding rich; and coverings of gold, and breastplates, and shields, which king Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian, that reigned first in Greece, had left there.

1 Maccabees 6:3
So he came, and sought to take the city and to pillage it; but he was not able, because the design was known to them that were in the city.