1 Maccabees 12:34-36

Common English Bible

³⁴ because he had heard that they were ready to hand over the fortress to people that Demetrius had sent. So he stationed a force there to occupy and guard it.

³⁵ When Jonathan returned to Jerusalem, he assembled the elders of the people and planned with them how to build fortresses in Judea. ³⁶ They also discussed how to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the elevated fortress and the city to separate them. This was to isolate the elevated fortress so that its troops couldn’t buy or sell things.