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So the whole army assembled, and went up to Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 4, 37)
At that time they built high walls and strong towers around Mount Zion, to prevent the Gentiles from coming and trampling over it as they had done before. (1 Maccabees 4, 60)
They ascended Mount Zion in joy and gladness and offered holocausts, because not one of them had fallen; they had returned in safety. (1 Maccabees 5, 54)
A part of the king's army went up to Jerusalem to attack them, and the king established camps in Judea and at Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 6, 48)
But when the king entered Mount Zion and saw how the place was fortified, he broke the oath he had sworn and gave orders for the encircling wall to be destroyed. (1 Maccabees 6, 62)
After this, Nicanor went up to Mount Zion. Some of the priests from the sanctuary and some of the elders of the people came out to greet him peaceably and to show him the holocaust that was being offered for the king. (1 Maccabees 7, 33)
He ordered the workmen to build the walls and encircle Mount Zion with square stones for its fortification, which they did. (1 Maccabees 10, 11)
He and his brothers and his father's house have stood firm and repulsed Israel's enemies. They have thus preserved its liberty." So they made an inscription on bronze tablets, which they affixed to pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
He also sent others to seize Jerusalem and the mount of the temple. (1 Maccabees 16, 20)
at Mount Gerizim, Andronicus; and besides these, Menelaus, who lorded it over his fellow citizens worse than the others did. Out of hatred for the Jewish citizens, (2 Maccabees 5, 23)
also to profane the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus, and that on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Hospitable, as the inhabitants of the place requested. (2 Maccabees 6, 2)
"Like a cedar on Lebanon I am raised aloft, like a cypress on Mount Hermon, (Ecclesiasticus 24, 13)