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Then they asked him to grant them terms of peace, and he did so. He removed them from there, took possession of the city, and set a garrison over it. (1 Maccabees 11, 66)
to build the walls of Jerusalem still higher, and to erect a high barrier between the citadel and the city to separate it from the city, in order to isolate it so that its garrison could neither buy nor sell. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
So they gathered together to build up the city; part of the wall on the valley to the east had fallen, and he repaired the section called Chaphenatha. (1 Maccabees 12, 37)
And Simon sent and took the bones of Jonathan his brother, and buried him in Modein, the city of his fathers. (1 Maccabees 13, 25)
In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, brought it up to the city, and battered and captured one tower. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city. (1 Maccabees 13, 44)
The men in the city, with their wives and children, went up on the wall with their clothes rent, and they cried out with a loud voice, asking Simon to make peace with them; (1 Maccabees 13, 45)
So Simon reached an agreement with them and stopped fighting against them. But he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses in which the idols were, and then entered it with hymns and praise. (1 Maccabees 13, 47)
This is a copy of the letter which the Spartans sent: "The rulers and the city of the Spartans to Simon the high priest and to the elders and the priests and the rest of the Jewish people, our brethren, greeting. (1 Maccabees 14, 20)
And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were put out of the country, as were also the men in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary and do great damage to its purity. (1 Maccabees 14, 36)
He settled Jews in it, and fortified it for the safety of the country and of the city, and built the walls of Jerusalem higher. (1 Maccabees 14, 37)
He surrounded the city, and the ships joined battle from the sea; he pressed the city hard from land and sea, and permitted no one to leave or enter it. (1 Maccabees 15, 14)
