1 Machabees 6:50-52 Douay-Rheims Challoner Revision 1752 (DRC1752)

50. And the king took Bethsura: and he placed there a garrison to keep it.

51. And he turned his army against the sanctuary for many days: and he set up there battering slings, and engines and instruments to cast fire, and engines to cast stones and javelins, and pieces to shoot arrows, and slings.

52. And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days.

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