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The king took refuge in the palace, while the citizens occupied the thoroughfares of the city and began to attack. (1 Maccabees 11, 46)
The king then called on the Jews for help; and these all rallied round him, then fanned out through the city, and that day killed about a hundred thousand of its inhabitants. (1 Maccabees 11, 47)
They fired the city, seizing a great deal of plunder at the same time, and secured the king's safety. (1 Maccabees 11, 48)
When the citizens saw that the Jews had the city at their mercy, their courage failed them, and they made an abject appeal to the king, (1 Maccabees 11, 49)
'Give us the right hand of peace, and let the Jews stop their fight against us and the city.' (1 Maccabees 11, 50)
and to heighten the walls of Jerusalem and erect a high barrier between the Citadel and the city, to cut the former off from the city and isolate it, to prevent the occupants from buying or selling. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
Rebuilding the city was a co-operative effort: part of the wall over the eastern ravine had fallen down; he restored the quarter called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
About that time Simon laid siege to Gezer, surrounding it with his troops. He constructed a mobile tower, brought it up to the city, opened a breach in one of the bastions and took it. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
The men in the mobile tower sprang out into the city, where great confusion ensued. (1 Maccabees 13, 44)
Simon came to terms with them and stopped the fighting; but he expelled them from the city, purified the houses which contained idols, and then made his entry with songs of praise. (1 Maccabees 13, 47)
This is the copy of the letter sent by the Spartans: 'The rulers and the city of Sparta, to Simon the high priest and to the elders and priests and the rest of the people of the Jews, greetings. (1 Maccabees 14, 20)
'It has fallen to him in his time to expel the foreigners from his country, including those in the City of David in Jerusalem, who had converted it into a citadel for their own use, from which they would sally out to defile the surroundings of the sanctuary and to violate its sacred character; (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
