50
So the king took Bethsura, and set a garrison there to keep it.
51
As for the sanctuary, he besieged it many days: and set there artillery with engines and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts and slings.
52
Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.
53
Yet at the last, their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the seventh year, and they in Judea that were delivered from the Gentiles, had eaten up the residue of the store;)
54
There were but a few left in the sanctuary, because the famine did so prevail against them, that they were fain to disperse themselves, every man to his own place.
The Brenton translation of the Septuagint is in the public domain.