1 Maccabees 9:53
52. He fortified also the city Bethsura, and Gazera, and the tower, and put forces in them, and provision of victuals.53. Besides, he took the chief men's sons in the country for hostages, and put them into the tower at Jerusalem to be kept.54. Moreover in the hundred fifty and third year, in the second month, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary should be pulled down; he pulled down also the works of the prophets
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