1 Maccabees 13:43-45

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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.

⁴⁵ And they that were in the city went up with their wives and children upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.