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They advanced through Idumaea and besieged Beth-Zur, pressing the attack for days on end; they also constructed siege-engines, but the defenders made a sortie and set these on fire, putting up a brave resistance. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)
The defenders countered these by constructing their own engines and were thus able to prolong their resistance. (1 Maccabees 6, 52)
while the defenders, confident in the security of the place, hurled fearful blasphemies and godless insults at them. (2 Maccabees 10, 34)
Others, in a similar scaling operation, took the defenders in the rear, and set fire to the towers, lighting pyres on which they burned the blasphemers alive. The first, meanwhile, breaking open the gates, let the rest of the army in and, at their head, captured the town. (2 Maccabees 10, 36)
