Good News Translation
The men who had been on the siege platform then moved rapidly into the town, and this created great confusion.

New Revised Standard Version
The men in the siege engine leaped out into the city, and a great tumult arose in the city.

Contemporary English Version
Then the soldiers who were operating the weapon rushed into Gazara, causing a terrible uproar.

New American Bible
Those in the siege machine leaped down into the city and a great tumult arose there.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And they that were within the engine leapt into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city.

And they that were within the engine leapt into the city: and there was a great uproar in the city.

1 Maccabees 13:42
And the people of Israel began to write in the instruments, and public records, The first year under Simon, the high priest, the great captain, and prince of the Jews.

1 Maccabees 13:43
In those days Simon besieged Gaza, and camped round about it, and he made engines, and set them to the city, and he struck one tower, and took it.

1 Maccabees 13:45
And they that were in the city went up, with their wives and children, upon the wall, with their garments rent, and they cried with a loud voice, beseeching Simon to grant them peace.

1 Maccabees 13:46
And they said: Deal not with us according to our evil deeds, but according to thy mercy.