2 Maccabees 10:18–23

No less than nine thousand took refuge in two 19 extremely strong towers, which were well equipped to stand a siege; so Maccabaeus left Simon and Joseph, together with Zacchaeus and his division, as a force adequate for the siege, and went off in person to various places where he was needed. But the covetous retinue of Simon allowed themselves to be bribed by some of those inside the towers, and let some of them slip out, on payment of seventy thousand drachmas. When Maccabaeus learned of what had occurred, he summoned the leaders of the nation and accused them of selling their brethren for money, by setting their enemies free to fight against them; then he slew these men for having turned traitors and instantly stormed the two towers. Successful in every feat of arms which he undertook, he destroyed in the two strongholds more than twenty thousand men.