1 Maccabees 14:34-36

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁴ He also fortified Joppa, which is by the sea, and Gazar′a, which is on the borders of Azo′tus, where the enemy formerly dwelt. He settled Jews there, and provided in those cities^[a] whatever was necessary for their restoration.

³⁵ “The people saw Simon’s faithfulness^[b] and the glory which he had resolved to win for his nation, and they made him their leader and high priest, because he had done all these things and because of the justice and loyalty which he had maintained toward his nation. He sought in every way to exalt his people. ³⁶ And in his days things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were put out of the^[c] country, as were also the men 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 and do great damage to its purity.