1 Maccabees 9:52
“He fortified also the citie Bethsura, and Gazara, and the towre, and put forces in them, and prouision of victuals.”
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1 Maccabees 9:52 Context
50Afterward returned [Bacchides] to Ierusalem, and repaired the strong cities in Iudea: the fort in Iericho, and Emmaus, and Bethoron, and Bethel, and Thamnatha, Pharathoni, and Taphon (these did he strengthen with high wals, with gates, & with barres.) 51And in them he set a garison, that they might worke malice vpon Israel. 52He fortified also the citie Bethsura, and Gazara, and the towre, and put forces in them, and prouision of victuals. 53Besides, he tooke the chiefe mens sonnes in the country for hostages, and put them into the towre at Ierusalem to be kept. 54Moreouer, in the hundred, fiftie and third yere, in the second moneth, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the Sanctuarie should be pulled downe, he pulled downe also the works of the prophets.
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He fortified also the city Bethsura, and Gazera, and the tower, and put forces in them, and provision of victuals.
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