1 Maccabees 6:18-20

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁸ And they that were in the high tower, closed (up) (al)together Israel in compass of (the) holy things (or about the Temple), and sought to (or for) them evils (for)evermore, to (or for) (the) strengthening of (the) heathen men.

¹⁹ And Judas thought for to destroy them, and called together all the people, for to besiege them.

²⁰ And they came together, and besieged them, in the hundred and fiftieth year; and they made arblasts (or arrow-blasters), that is, an instrument for to cast shafts, and stones, and engines.