1 Maccabees 5:54
King James VersionSource notes
“So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.”
Context
51Who then slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and rased the city, and took the spoils thereof, and passed through the city over them that were slain.
52After this went they over Jordan into the great plain before Bethsan.
53And Judas gathered together those that came behind, and exhorted the people all the way through, till they came into the land of Judea.
54So they went up to mount Sion with joy and gladness, where they offered burnt offerings, because not one of them were slain until they had returned in peace.
55Now what time as Judas and Jonathan were in the land of Galaad, and Simon his brother in Galilee before Ptolemais,
56Joseph the son of Zacharias, and Azarias, captains of the garrisons, heard of the valiant acts and warlike deeds which they had done.
57Wherefore they said, Let us also get us a name, and go fight against the heathen that are round about us.