1 Maccabees 13:8LXX

6I will avenge then my nation and the sanctuary, and our children, and wives: for all the heathens are gathered together to destroy us out of mere malice.

7And the spirit of the people was enkindled as soon as they heard these words.

8And they answered with a loud voice, saying: Thou art our leader in the place of Judas, and Jonathan thy brother.

9Fight thou our battles, and we will do whatsoever thou shalt say to us.

10So gathering together all the men of war, he made haste to finish all the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it round about.