1 Maccabees 1:32-34

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

³² They took captive the women and children, and seized the livestock. ³³ Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel. ³⁴ They stationed there a sinful people, men who were renegades. These strengthened their position;