For in his time things prospered in his hands, so that the heathen were taken out of their country, and they also that were in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had made themselves a tower, out of which they issued, and polluted all about the sanctuary, and did much hurt in the holy place:
During his time, things prospered in his hands, so that the Gentiles were driven from the land, along with those in the City of David in Jerusalem who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to emerge and defile the area around the sanctuary, doing great harm to the holy place.
