37. for they said, "Let us all die in our simplicity. And heaven and earth will testify for us, that you destroyed us unjustly."
38. So they carried out a battle on the Sabbath. And they were put to death, with their wives, and their sons, and their cattle, even to the number of a thousand souls of men.
39. And Mattathias and his friends heard of it, and they held a very great lamentation for them.