36. But they did not respond, nor did they cast a stone at them, nor did they barricade the hidden places,
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.