1 Maccabees 6:50-52

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵⁰ And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep it.

⁵¹ And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings.

⁵² And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days.