1 Maccabees 6:2–4

was a city renowned for riches, for silver and gold, and that the temple which was in it ⁽was⁽ rich exceedingly, and that therein ⁽were⁽ golden shields, and breastplates, and arms, which Alexander, son of Philip, the Macedonian king, who reigned first among the Greeks, had left behind there. So he came and sought to take the city, and to pillage it; but he was not able ⁽to do so⁽ because the thing had become known to them of the city. And they rose up against him to battle; and he fled, and removed thence with great heaviness, to return to Babylon.