1 Maccabees 2:32–38

And many ran after them, and having overtaken them, they encamped against them, and set the battle in array against them on the Sabbath day. And they said unto them: ‘Let it suffice now; come forth, and do according to the command of the king, and ye shall live.’ And they answered, ‘We will not come forth, nor will we do according to the command of the king, and thereby profane the Sabbath day. Thereupon they immediately attacked them. But they answered them not, nor did they cast a stone at them, nor even block up their hiding-places, saying, ‘Let us all die in our innocency; Heaven and earth bear us witness that ye destroy us wrongfully’And they attacked them on the Sabbath; and they died, they and their wives, and their children, and their cattle, about a thousand souls.