1 Maccabees 4:60-61

Revised Standard Version

⁶⁰ At that time they fortified Mount Zion with high walls and strong towers round about, to keep the Gentiles from coming and trampling them down as they had done before. ⁶¹ And he stationed a garrison there to hold it. He also^[a] fortified Beth-zur, so that the people might have a stronghold that faced Idume′a.