OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 9:53

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He took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them under guard in the citadel at Jerusalem.

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Verse 53. Castle, on the highest part of Sion. verse 52. Calmet. 1:35.—Custody, without doing them any farther injury. Calmet.

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