1 Maccabees 6:27
King James VersionSource notes
“Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.”
Context
24For which cause they of our nation besiege the tower, and are alienated from us: moreover as many of us as they could light on they slew, and spoiled our inheritance.
25Neither have they stretched out their hand against us only, but also against their borders.
26And, behold, this day are they besieging the tower at Jerusalem, to take it: the sanctuary also and Bethsura have they fortified.
27Wherefore if thou dost not prevent them quickly, they will do the greater things than these, neither shalt thou be able to rule them.
28Now when the king heard this, he was angry, and gathered together all his friends, and the captains of his army, and those that had charge of the horse.
29There came also unto him from other kingdoms, and from isles of the sea, bands of hired soldiers.
30So that the number of his army was an hundred thousand footmen, and twenty thousand horsemen, and two and thirty elephants exercised in battle.