1 Maccabees 13:41-45
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41 Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.
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42 Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
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43 In those days Simon camped against Gaza 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.
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44 And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in the city:
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45 Insomuch as 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.