1 Maccabees 14:36

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³⁶ In his days things prospered in his hands, so that the nations were put out of the^[a] country, as were also those in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary, doing great damage to its purity.^(A)