1 Maccabees 12:33-35

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³³ Simon also went forth, and came as far as Ascalon, and the neighbouring fortresses, and he turned aside to Joppe, and took possession of it,

³⁴ (For he heard that they designed to deliver the hold to them that took part with Demetrius,) and he put a garrison there to keep it.

³⁵ And Jonathan came back, and called together the ancients of the people, and he took a resolution with them to build fortresses in Judea,