18 Those who were in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary, and always sought to harm them and to strengthen the Gentiles. (WEB) 19 Judas planned to destroy them, and called all the people together to besiege them. (WEB) 20 They were gathered together, and besieged them in the one hundred fiftieth year, and he made mounds to shoot from, and engines of war. (WEB)
1 Maccabees 6:18–20
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1 Maccabees 6:25–27
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1 Maccabees 11:20–22
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1 Maccabees 6:51–53
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1 Maccabees 5:4–6
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2 Maccabees 12:13–15
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1 Maccabees 7:5–7
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Nehemiah 4:7–9
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1 Maccabees 9:66–68
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