1 Maccabees 6:19-21

Wycliffe Bible

¹⁹ And Judas thought for to destroy them, and called together all the people, for to besiege them.

²⁰ And they came together, and besieged them, in the hundred and fiftieth year; and they made arblasts (or arrow-blasters), that is, an instrument for to cast shafts, and stones, and engines.

²¹ And some of them that were besieged, went out; and some unfaithful [or unpious] men of Israel joined themselves to them,