1 Maccabees 5:67
King James VersionSource notes
“At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.”
Context
64Insomuch as the people assembled unto them with joyful acclamations.
65Afterward went Judas forth with his brethren, and fought against the children of Esau in the land toward the south, where he smote Hebron, and the towns thereof, and pulled down the fortress of it, and burned the towers thereof round about.
66From thence he removed to go into the land of the Philistines, and passed through Samaria.
67At that time certain priests, desirous to shew their valour, were slain in battle, for that they went out to fight unadvisedly.
68So Judas turned to Azotus in the land of the Philistines, and when he had pulled down their altars, and burned their carved images with fire, and spoiled their cities, he returned into the land of Judea.