2 Maccabees 10:18-20

Revised Standard Version

¹⁸ When no less than nine thousand took refuge in two very strong towers well equipped to withstand a siege, ¹⁹ Maccabe′us left Simon and Joseph, and also Zacchae′us and his men, a force sufficient to besiege them; and he himself set off for places where he was more urgently needed. ²⁰ But the men with Simon, who were money-hungry, were bribed by some of those who were in the towers, and on receiving seventy thousand drachmas let some of them slip away.