1 Maccabees 11:19-21

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁹ So Demetrius became king in the one hundred sixty-seventh year.^[a]

Jonathan’s Diplomacy

²⁰ In those days Jonathan assembled the Judeans to attack the citadel in Jerusalem, and he built many engines of war to use against it. ²¹ But certain renegades who hated their nation went to the king and reported to him that Jonathan was besieging the citadel.