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Through Edom they marched, and invested Bethsura; long they held it besieged, and built engines to attack it, but these, by a brave sally, the defenders burned to ashes. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
With the defenders of Bethsura he had made terms; yield up the city they must, so ill were they victualled for a siege, in a year when the land lay fallow;✻ (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
till at last it obtained terms of surrender; he rid the place of its defenders and took over the command of it, putting in a garrison of his own. (1 Maccabees 11, 66)
Word came to Tryphon from the defenders of Jerusalem citadel, he should make his way across the desert without more ado, and bring them supplies; (1 Maccabees 13, 21)
And here the avarice of Simon’s men was their undoing; for a bribe of seventy thousand silver pieces, they allowed some of the defenders to escape. (2 Maccabees 10, 20)
so carrying all before him by force of arms, that more than twenty thousand of the defenders perished. (2 Maccabees 10, 23)
but the defenders were confident in its strength; loud their defiance was, and very blasphemous the words they uttered. (2 Maccabees 10, 34)
Such trust the defenders had in the strength of their ramparts, and their plentiful supplies of food, they carried themselves recklessly, hurling taunts at Judas, with blasphemies and other talk little fit to be uttered. (2 Maccabees 12, 14)
Yet strength is none can hold its own against the Omnipotent; to him the Jews made appeal, and so took the city, killing twenty-five thousand of the defenders. (2 Maccabees 12, 28)
so the king was fain to parley with the defenders of Bethsura, and, upon agreed terms, the siege of it was raised. (2 Maccabees 13, 22)
All the rest who survived, defenders and deserters alike, were carried off by Nabuzardan, the captain of the royal bodyguard, to Babylon; (Jeremiah 39, 9)
