2 Maccabees 12:18–21

¹⁸But as for ^cTimotheus, they found him not in ^uthe places: for before he had dispatched any thing, he departed from thence, ^vhaving left a very strong garrison in a certain ^uhold. ¹⁹Howbeit ^wDositheus and Sosipater, who were of Maccabeus’ captains, went forth, and slew those that Timotheus had left in the fortress, above ten thousand men.

²⁰And Maccabeus ranged his army by bands, and set them over the ^xbands, and ^ywent against Timotheus, who had about him an hundred and twenty thousand men of foot, and two thousand and five hundred horsemen. ²¹Now when Timotheus had knowledge of Judas’ coming, he sent the women and children and the other baggage unto a fortress called Carnion: for the town was hard to besiege, and uneasy to come unto, by reason of the straitness of all the places.