2 Maccabees 11:5
“Bethsura was a city in the tribe of Judah or Benjamin, and even to this day Bethsura is seen as we go from Aelia to Hebron at the twentieth milestone; near it there is a spring bubbling up at the foot of the mountain, which is absorbed by the same soil in which it is produced; and the Acts of the Apostles recount that…”
Source: Septuagint
5So he came to Judea, and drew near to Beth-zur, which was a strong town, but distant from Jerusalem about five furlongs, and he laid sore siege unto it.
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3and to make a gain of the temple, as of the other chapels of the heathen, and to set the high priesthood to sale every year:
4not at all considering the power of God, but puffed up with his ten thousands of footmen, and his thousands of horsemen, and his fourscore elephants.
— 2 Maccabees 11:5 —
6Now when they that were with Maccabeus heard that he besieged the holds, they and all the people with lamentation and tears besought the Lord that he would send a good angel to deliver Israel.
7Then Maccabeus himself first of all took weapons, exhorting the other that they would jeopard themselves together with him to help their brethren: so they went forth together with a willing mind.