1 Maccabees 13:43

43 In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and besieged it round about. He made also an engine of war and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower and took it.

1 Maccabees 13:43 In-Context

41 Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.

42 Then the people of Israel began to write in their documents and contracts: In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.

43 In those days Simon encamped against Gazara and besieged it round about. He made also an engine of war and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower and took it.

44 And those who were in the engine leaped into the city, whereupon there was a great uproar in the city,

45 insomuch that the people of the city rent their clothes, and climbed upon the walls with their wives and children and cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.