1 Maccabees 4:60 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895 And at that season they builded up the mount Sion with high walls and strong towers round about, lest haply the Gentiles should come and tread them down, as they had done aforetime. Flere versionerCommon English Bible At that same time the Israelites built high walls and strong towers all around Mount Zion so that the Gentiles did not come and trample them as they had done previously. Catholic Public Domain Version And they built up, at that time, Mount Zion, with high walls and strong towers all around, lest the Gentiles should at any time come and trample upon it, as they did before. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version They built up also at that time mount Sion, with high walls, and strong towers round about, lest the Gentiles should at any time come, and tread it down as they did before. Good News Translation (US Version) Then they built high walls and strong towers around Mount Zion, so that the Gentiles could not come in and trample and defile it again. World English Bible - American English Edition - without Strong's Numbers At that time, they fortified mount Zion with high walls and strong towers around it, lest perhaps the Gentiles might come and trample them down, as they had done before. Contemporary English Version Interconfessional Edition Then they built strong walls and high towers around Mount Zion to protect the temple from being destroyed by Gentiles again, |