2 Maccabees 10:19-21

Common English Bible

¹⁹ the Maccabee departed to other places that needed his urgent attention, leaving Simon, Joseph, and Zacchaeus with a sufficient force for the siege of these towers. ²⁰ Some men in the towers bribed greedy people around Simon. These people in turn, after receiving seventy thousand drachmen,^[a] allowed some of the enemy to slip away. ²¹ When the Maccabee found out what happened, he gathered the leaders of the people and accused them of selling their brothers for silver by setting free the enemy.