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• Look! They have now besieged the citadel in Jerusalem in order to capture it, and they have fortified the sanctuary and Beth-zur. (1 Maccabees 6, 26)

• They passed through Idumea and camped before Beth-zur. For many days they attacked it; they constructed siege-devices, but the besieged made a sortie and burned these, and they fought bravely. (1 Maccabees 6, 31)

• Then Judas marched away from the citadel and moved his camp to Beth-zechariah, on the way to the king's camp. (1 Maccabees 6, 32)

• The king, rising before dawn, moved his force hastily along the road to Beth-zechariah; and the armies prepared for battle, while the trumpets sounded. (1 Maccabees 6, 33)

• He made peace with the men of Beth-zur, and they evacuated the city, because they had no food there to enable them to stand a siege, for that was a sabbath year in the land. (1 Maccabees 6, 49)

• The king took Beth-zur and stationed a garrison there to hold it. (1 Maccabees 6, 50)

• Bacchides withdrew from Jerusalem and pitched his camp in Beth-zaith. He had many of the men arrested who deserted to him, throwing them into the great pit. (1 Maccabees 7, 19)

• Nicanor left Jerusalem and pitched his camp at Beth-horon, where the Syrian army joined him. (1 Maccabees 7, 39)

• On returning to Jerusalem, Bacchides built strongholds in Judea: the Jericho fortress, as well as Emmaus, Beth-horon, Bethel, Timnath, Pharathon, and Tephon, with high walls and gates and bars. (1 Maccabees 9, 50)

• He fortified the city of Beth-zur, Gazara and the citadel, and put soldiers in them and stores of provisions. (1 Maccabees 9, 52)

• Only in Beth-zur did some remain of those who had abandoned the law and the commandments, for they used it as a place of refuge. (1 Maccabees 10, 14)

• The horsemen too were scattered over the plain. The enemy fled to Azotus and entered Beth-dagon, the temple of their idol, to save themselves. (1 Maccabees 10, 83)