1 Maccabees 2:32–38

³²And forthwith they went out towards them, and made war against them on the sabbath day.

³³And they said to them: Do you still resist? come forth, and do according to the edict of king Antiochus, and you shall live.

³⁴And they said: We will not come forth, neither will we obey the king’s edict, to profane the sabbath day.

³⁵And they made haste to give them battle.

³⁶But they answered them not, neither did they cast a stone at them, nor stopped up the secret places,

³⁷Saying: Let us all die in our innocency: and heaven and earth shall be witnesses for us, that you put us to death wrongfully.

³⁸So they gave them battle on the sabbath: and they were slain, with their wives, and their children, and their cattle, to the number of a thousand persons.