1 Maccabees 6:52
“Whereupon they also made engins, against their engins, and helde them battell a long season.”
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1 Maccabees 6:52 Context
50So the King tooke Bethsura, and set a garison there to keepe it. 51As for the Sanctuarie hee besieged it many dayes: and set there artillerie with engins, and instruments to cast fire and stones, and pieces to cast darts, and slings. 52Whereupon they also made engins, against their engins, and helde them battell a long season. 53Yet at the last their vessels being without victuals, (for that it was the seuenth yeere, and they in Iudea that were deliuered from the Gentiles, had eaten vp the residue of the store) 54There were but a few left in the Sanctuary, because the famine did so preuaile against them, that they were faine to disperse themselues, euery man to his owne place.
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Whereupon they also made engines against their engines, and held them battle a long season.
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