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1 Maccabees 13:43
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43 Simon Captures Gazara. About that time, Simon besieged Gazara[a] and surrounded it with troops. He constructed a siege-machine, and after he had brought it up to the town, he opened a breach in one of the towers and captured it.

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  1. 1 Maccabees 13:43 Gazara: a key position in the Shephelah, fortified by Bacchides in 160 B.C.; see 1 Mac 9:52; a Greek inscription hostile to Simon has been found there. Siege-machine: a tower on wheels housing men with catapults and battering rams that could breach fortified walls.
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