1 Maccabees 13:48-50

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁸ And having cast out of it all uncleanness, he placed in it men that should observe the law: and he fortified it, and made it his habitation.

⁴⁹ But they that were in the castle of Jerusalem were hindered from going out and coming into the country, and from buying and selling: and they were straitened with hunger, and many of them perished through famine.

⁵⁰ And they cried to Simon for peace, and he granted it to them: and he cast them out from thence, and cleansed the castle from uncleannesses.