1 Maccabees 6:20
Good News Translation
The people assembled and laid siege to the fort in the year 150. They built siege platforms and battering rams.

New Revised Standard Version
They gathered together and besieged the citadel in the one hundred fiftieth year; and he built siege towers and other engines of war.

Contemporary English Version
So he and his troops set up movable towers and other weapons of war and attacked in the year 150 of the Syrian Kingdom.

New American Bible
So in the one hundred and fiftieth year they assembled and besieged the citadel, for which purpose he constructed platforms and siege engines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines.

1 Maccabees 6:18
Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.

1 Maccabees 6:19
And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.

1 Maccabees 6:21
And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them.

1 Maccabees 6:22
And they went to the king, and said: How long dost thou delay to execute judgment, and to revenge our brethren?

Context
1 Maccabees 6
19And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them. 20And they came together, and besieged them in the year one hundred and fifty, and they made battering slings and engines. 21And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 6:18
Now they that were in the castle, had shut up the Israelites round about the holy places: and they were continually seeking their hurt, and to strengthen the Gentiles.

1 Maccabees 6:19
And Judas purposed to destroy them: and he called together all the people, to besiege them.

1 Maccabees 6:21
And some of the besieged got out: and some wicked men of Israel joined themselves unto them.

1 Maccabees 6:22
And they went to the king, and said: How long dost thou delay to execute judgment, and to revenge our brethren?



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1 Maccabees 6:19
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