1 Maccabees 13:43
King James VersionSource notes
“In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.”
Context
40And look who are meet among you to be in our court, let then be enrolled, and let there be peace betwixt us.
41Thus the yoke of the heathen was taken away from Israel in the hundred and seventieth year.
42Then the people of Israel began to write in their instruments and contracts, In the first year of Simon the high priest, the governor and leader of the Jews.
43In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it.
44And they that were in the engine leaped into the city; whereupon there was a great uproar in the city:
45Insomuch as the people of the city rent their clothes, and climbed upon the walls with their wives and children, and cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.
46And they said, Deal not with us according to our wickedness, but according to thy mercy.