1 Maccabees 2:32–38

³²Many pursued them and overtook them; they encamped opposite them and prepared for battle against them on the Sabbath day. ³³They said to them, “Enough of this! Come out and do what the king commands, and you will live.” ³⁴But they said, “We will not come out, nor will we do what the king commands and so profane the Sabbath day.”^{* 35}Then the enemy^f quickly attacked them. ³⁶But they did not answer them or hurl a stone at them or block up their hiding places, ³⁷for they said, “Let us all die in our innocence; heaven and earth testify for us that you are killing us unjustly.” ³⁸So they attacked them on the Sabbath, and they died, with their wives and children and livestock, to the number of a thousand persons.^*