33
Then they fortified the city of David with a great strong wall and strong towers, and it became their citadel.
34
They stationed there a sinful people, men who were renegades. These strengthened their position;
35
they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great menace,
36
for the citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel at all times.
37
On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary.
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