1 Maccabees 13:41-43

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⁴¹ In the one hundred seventieth year the yoke of the nations was removed from Israel, ⁴² and the people began to write in their documents and contracts, “In the first year of Simon the great high priest and commander and leader of the Jews.”^(A)

The Capture of Gazara by Simon

⁴³ In those days Simon^[a] encamped against Gazara^[b] and surrounded it with troops. He made a siege engine, brought it up to the city, and battered and captured one tower.