1 Maccabees 6:50-52

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵⁰ So the king took Beth-zur and stationed a guard there to hold it. ⁵¹ Then he encamped before the sanctuary for many days. He set up siege-towers, engines of war to throw fire and stones, machines to shoot arrows, and catapults. ⁵² The Jews^[a] also made engines of war to match theirs, and fought for many days.