Good News Translation
Then they built high walls and strong towers around Mount Zion, so that the Gentiles could not come in and trample and defile it again.

New Revised Standard Version
At that time they fortified Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers all around, to keep the Gentiles from coming and trampling them down as they had done before.

Contemporary English Version
Then they built strong walls and high towers around Mount Zion to protect the temple from being destroyed by Gentiles again,

New American Bible
At that time they built high walls and strong towers around Mount Zion, to prevent the Gentiles from coming and trampling it as they had done before.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before.

They built up also at that time Mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down, as they did before.

1 Maccabees 4:58
And there was exceeding great joy among the people, and the reproach of the Gentiles was turned away.

1 Maccabees 4:59
And Judas, and his brethren, and all the church of Israel decreed, that the day of the dedication of the altar should be kept in its season from year to year for eight days, from the five and twentieth day of the month of Casleu, with joy and gladness.

1 Maccabees 4:61
And he placed a garrison there, to keep it, and he fortified it, to secure Bethsura, that the people might have a defence against Idumea.

1 Maccabees 5:1
Now it came to pass, when the nations round about heard that the altar and the sanctuary were built up, as before, that they were exceeding angry.