1 Maccabees 13:44DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 44 of 54
"And they that were within the engine leaped into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city."
In context
42And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon the high priest, the great captain and prince of the Jews.
43In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and took it.
44And they that were within the engine leaped into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city.
45And they that were in the city went up with their wives and children upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.
46And they said: Deal not with us according to our evil deeds, but according to thy mercy.