1 Maccabees 13:42-44

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴² And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon the high priest, the great captain and prince of the Jews.

⁴³ In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and took it.

⁴⁴ And they that were within the engine leaped into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city.