1 Maccabees 13:42-44

Good News Translation

⁴² People began to date their documents and contracts with these words:

^43 (A)At that time Simon laid siege to Gezer and surrounded it with his army. He built a movable siege platform, brought it up to the town wall, attacked one of the towers, and captured it. ⁴⁴ The men who had been on the siege platform then moved rapidly into the town, and this created great confusion.