32 So a large number of the troops went after them and camped nearby. Then on the Sabbath
33 they said to the Jews, “This is your last chance! Come out and obey the king's orders, or you will die.”
34 The Jews answered, “We're not coming out! And we refuse to break the laws of the Sabbath by obeying the king's orders!”
35 At once the enemy forces attacked.
36 But the Jews did not try to defend themselves; not one of them threw a rock or even tried to pile up rocks in front of the caves.
37 They just said, “We've done nothing deserving death! Everyone in heaven and on earth knows that you are wrong to kill us.”
38 On that Sabbath 1,000 Jewish men, women, and children were slaughtered, together with their sheep and goats.