1 Maccabees 11:19-21
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
19 Thus Demetrius became king in the one hundred and sixty-seventh year.[a]
Alliance of Jonathan and Demetrius II. 20 In those days Jonathan gathered together the people of Judea to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and they set up many siege engines against it. 21 But some transgressors of the law, enemies of their own nation, went to the king and informed him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.
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