2 Maccabees 10:17-19

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

¹⁷ And assaulting them with great force, won the holds, killed them that came in the way, and slew altogether no fewer than twenty thousand.

¹⁸ And whereas some were fled into very strong towers, having all manner of provision to sustain a siege,

¹⁹ Machabeus left Simon and Joseph, and Zacheus, and them that were with them in sufficient number to besiege them, and departed to those expeditions which urged more.