1 Maccabees 13:9-11

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁹ Fight our battles, and all that you say to us we will do.” ¹⁰ So he assembled all the warriors and hastened to complete the walls of Jerusalem, and he fortified it on every side. ¹¹ He sent Jonathan the son of Ab′salom to Joppa, and with him a considerable army; he drove out its occupants and remained there.