1 Maccabees 14:7-9

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁷ And he gathered together a great number of captives, and had the dominion of Gazara, and of Bethsura, and of the castle: and took away all uncleanness out of it and there was none that resisted him.

⁸ And every man tilled his land with peace: and the land of Juda yielded her increase, and the trees of the fields their fruit.

⁹ The ancient men sat all in the streets, and treated together of the good things of the land, and the young men put on them glory, and the robes of war.