1 Maccabees 6:18-20

New Catholic Bible

¹⁸ Meanwhile, the men garrisoned in the citadel were blockading the Israelites in the sanctuary, taking advantage of every opportunity to harm them and thereby further the cause of the Gentiles. ¹⁹ Judas therefore resolved to bring about their destruction, and he mobilized all the people to besiege them. ²⁰ They assembled and stormed the citadel in the year one hundred and fifty, employing catapults and engines of war whose construction he had ordered.