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Then came Jonathan to Jerusalem, and read the letters in the audience of all the people, and of them that were in the tower: (1 Maccabees 10, 7)
Whereupon they of the tower delivered their hostages unto Jonathan, and he delivered them unto their parents. (1 Maccabees 10, 9)
And as for the tower which is at Jerusalem, I yield up authority over it, and give the high priest, that he may set in it such men as he shall choose to keep it. (1 Maccabees 10, 32)
At the same time Jonathan gathered together them that were in Judea to take the tower that was in Jerusalem: and he made many engines of war against it. (1 Maccabees 11, 20)
Then came ungodly persons, who hated their own people, went unto the king, and told him that Jonathan besieged the tower, (1 Maccabees 11, 21)
Whereof when he heard, he was angry, and immediately removing, he came to Ptolemais, and wrote unto Jonathan, that he should not lay siege to the tower, but come and speak with him at Ptolemais in great haste. (1 Maccabees 11, 22)
In the mean time Jonathan sent unto king Demetrius, that he would cast those of the tower out of Jerusalem, and those also in the fortresses: for they fought against Israel. (1 Maccabees 11, 41)
And making the walls of Jerusalem higher, and raising a great mount between the tower and the city, for to separate it from the city, that so it might be alone, that men might neither sell nor buy in it. (1 Maccabees 12, 36)
Now they that were in the tower sent messengers unto Tryphon, to the end that he should hasten his coming unto them by the wilderness, and send them victuals. (1 Maccabees 13, 21)
In those days Simon camped against Gaza and besieged it round about; he made also an engine of war, and set it by the city, and battered a certain tower, and took it. (1 Maccabees 13, 43)
They also of the tower in Jerusalem were kept so strait, that they could neither come forth, nor go into the country, nor buy, nor sell: wherefore they were in great distress for want of victuals, and a great number of them perished through famine. (1 Maccabees 13, 49)
Then cried they to Simon, beseeching him to be at one with them: which thing he granted them; and when he had put them out from thence, he cleansed the tower from pollutions: (1 Maccabees 13, 50)