1 Maccabees 9:53
“Besides, he tooke the chiefe mens sonnes in the country for hostages, and put them into the towre at Ierusalem to be kept.”
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1 Maccabees 9:53 Context
51And in them he set a garison, that they might worke malice vpon Israel. 52He fortified also the citie Bethsura, and Gazara, and the towre, and put forces in them, and prouision of victuals. 53Besides, he tooke the chiefe mens sonnes in the country for hostages, and put them into the towre at Ierusalem to be kept. 54Moreouer, in the hundred, fiftie and third yere, in the second moneth, Alcimus commanded that the wall of the inner court of the Sanctuarie should be pulled downe, he pulled downe also the works of the prophets. 55And as he began to pull downe, euen at that time was Alcimus plagued, and his enterprises hindered: for his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsie, so that hee could no more speake any thing, nor giue order concerning his house.
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Besides, he took the chief men's sons in the country for hostages, and put them into the tower at Jerusalem to be kept.
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