1 Maccabees 10:11-13

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹¹ And he ordered workmen to build the walls, and mount Sion round about with square stones for fortification: and so they did.

¹² And the strangers that were in the strong holds, which Bacchides had built, fled away.

¹³ And every man left his place, and departed into his own country: