OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 12:36

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36

and to make the walls of Jerusalem higher, and to raise a great mound between the citadel and the city, to separate it from the city, that so it might be isolated, that its garrison might neither buy nor sell.

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Verse 36. Mount. Lit. “height,” ( Bible.) or wall, to prevent the garrison from receiving supplies. Calmet.

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