1 Maccabees 6:20

20 They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.

1 Maccabees 6:20 In-Context

18 Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the Gentiles.
19 Judas therefore resolved to destroy them, and assembled all the people to besiege them.
20 They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.
21 But some of the garrison escaped from the siege and some of the ungodly Israelites joined them.
22 They went to the king and said, "How long will you fail to do justice and to avenge our kindred?

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