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The result is that the Citadel is now besieged by our own people and we are treated as foreigners. All of us who were caught have been killed and they have seized our property. (1 Maccabees 6, 24)
His forces numbered a hundred thousand infantry, twenty thousand horsemen and thirty-two elephants trained for battle. (1 Maccabees 6, 30)
They came through Idumea, besieged Beth-zur and attacked for days, using engines of war. But the besieged made a sortie and burned their engines and bravely kept up the resistance. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
They showed juice of grapes and mulberries to the elephants to arouse them for battle, (1 Maccabees 6, 34)
The rest of the cavalry were stationed on the right and left flanks of the army to harass the enemy and protect the battalions. (1 Maccabees 6, 38)
When the sun shone on the shields of gold and bronze, the mountains glittered and gleamed like flames of fire. (1 Maccabees 6, 39)
Nevertheless Judas and his army advanced to give battle; and about six hundred men of the king's army fell. (1 Maccabees 6, 42)
He boldly charged towards the animal right into the midst of the battalion, killing men right and left, scattering the enemy before him on both sides. (1 Maccabees 6, 45)
He made peace with the people of Beth-zur who evacuated the city since they had no food to continue the resistance, for that year was a year of rest for the land. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
He encamped before the temple for a long time and set up firing platforms, crossbows, engines, fire-throwers, catapults, scorpions to discharge arrows, and slingers. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
The defenders also constructed engines as their attackers had done and they fought for a long time. (1 Maccabees 6, 52)
But they had no food in storage, as it was the seventh year and because the Israelites who came to Judea from the pagan lands had consumed the last of their reserves. (1 Maccabees 6, 53)
