1 Maccabees 14:36-37

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁶ And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were put out of the^[a] country, as were also the men in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary and do great damage to its purity. ³⁷ He settled Jews in it, and fortified it for the safety of the country and of the city, and built the walls of Jerusalem higher.