1 Maccabees 13:46-48

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁴⁶ they said, ‘Do not treat us according to our wicked acts but according to your mercy.’ ⁴⁷ So Simon reached an agreement with them and stopped fighting against them. But he expelled them from the city and cleansed the houses in which the idols were located, and then entered it with hymns and praise. ⁴⁸ He removed all uncleanness from it, and settled in it those who observed the law. He also strengthened its fortifications and built in it a house for himself.