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Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
At this time, too, they fortified the hill of Sion, with walls and strong towers all about; never more should Gentile feet profane it. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
how there were many whom their fellow-citizens had brought to bay in such great fortified cities as Barasa, Bosor, Alima, Casphor, Mageth and Carnaim; (1 Maccabees 5, 26)
Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)
Here was the battle fairly begun; the cry of them went up to heaven, loud as clarion-call, and a great cry, too, was raised within the city. (1 Maccabees 5, 31)
Upon taking the city, he burned its temple to the ground with all that were sheltered in it; so was Carnaim vanquished, and could make head against Juda no more. (1 Maccabees 5, 44)
They journeyed safely as far as Ephron, that was a great city and well fortified, the very gate of Juda; turn to right or left they might not, their road lay through the heart of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 46)
and go to the assault they did, the fighting men of his company. All day and all night they attacked the city, and Judas was given the mastery of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 50)
Never a male creature there but was put to the sword; the city was plundered and pulled down; and so he passed on through the streets of it, all paved with dead men. (1 Maccabees 5, 51)
King Antiochus was still on his journey through the high countries, when he heard tell of a city in Persia called Elymais, renowned for its treasures of silver and gold; (1 Maccabees 6, 1)
Thither he marched, intent on seizing the city and plundering it; but seize it he might not, because the townsfolk had news of his purpose, (1 Maccabees 6, 3)
even now they stand arrayed against the citadel of Jerusalem, ready to take it by storm, and have fortified Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 26)
