1 Maccabees 5:28
“In the preceding passages it is related that the cities of Gilead, in which the Jews had been seized, were fortified and great, which Judas committed to capture and destroy in a single day: for by unity the holy preachers plan to destroy all the strongholds of false doctrines that heretics establish in order to deceiv…”
Source: Septuagint
28Hereupon Judas and his host turned suddenly by the way of the wilderness unto Bozrah; and when he had won the city, he slew all the males with the edge of the sword, and took all their spoils, and burned the city with fire.
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26and how that many of them were shut up in Bozrah, and Bosor, and Alema, Chaspho, Maked, and Carnaim; all these cities are strong and great:
27and that they were shut up in the rest of the cities of the country of Gilead, and that against tomorrow they had appointed to bring their host against the forts, and to take them, and to destroy them all in one day.
— 1 Maccabees 5:28 —
29From whence he removed by night, and went till he came to the fortress.
30And betimes in the morning they looked up, and, behold, there was an innumerable people bearing ladders and other engines of war, to take the fortress: for they assaulted them.