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They took captive the women and children, and seized the livestock.
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Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
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They stationed there a sinful people, men who were renegades. These strengthened their position;
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they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great menace,
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for the citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel at all times.