1 Maccabees 14:7-9

Good News Translation

⁷ but he brought back many prisoners of war and captured Gezer, Bethzur, and the fort in Jerusalem. He purified the fort, and there was no one to oppose him.

⁸ The Jews farmed their land in peace; the land produced its crops and the trees bore fruit. ⁹ The young men showed off their splendid military uniforms, while the old men sat around the city squares and talked about the great things that had happened.