1 Maccabees 4:58-60

Wycliffe Bible

⁵⁸ And full great gladness was made in the people, and the shame (or the reproof) of (the) heathen men was turned away.

⁵⁹ And Judas ordained, and his brethren, and all the church (or all the congregation) of Israel, that the day of hallowing of the altar be done in his (or its) times, from year into year, by eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month Kislev, that is, December, with gladness and joy.

⁶⁰ And they builded in that time the hill of Zion, and by compass high walls, and firm towers, lest any time (the) heathen men would come, and defoul it, as they did before.