1 Maccabees 6:52-54

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵² And they also made engines against their engines, and they fought for many days.

⁵³ But there were no victuals in the city, because it was the seventh year: and such as had stayed in Judea of them that came from among the nations, had eaten the residue of all that which had been stored up.

⁵⁴ And there remained in the holy places but a few, for the famine had prevailed over them: and they were dispersed every man to his own place.