1 Maccabees 6:18-20

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁸ Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.

¹⁹ And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.

²⁰ And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.