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they had taken him alive and imposed on him and his successors, on agreed terms, the payment of an enormous tribute, the surrender of hostages, and the cession (1 Maccabees 8, 7)
He took the sons of the leading men of the country as hostages, and had them placed under guard in the Citadel of Jerusalem. (1 Maccabees 9, 53)
He even authorised him to raise an army, to manufacture arms, and to describe himself as his ally, and ordered the hostages in the Citadel to be surrendered to him. (1 Maccabees 10, 6)
The men in the Citadel surrendered the hostages to Jonathan, who handed them back to their parents. (1 Maccabees 10, 9)
'You are entirely alone in rising against us, and now I find myself ridiculed and reproached on your account. Why do you use your authority to our disadvantage in the mountains? (1 Maccabees 10, 70)
The people of Gaza then pleaded with Jonathan, and he made peace with them; but he took the sons of their chief men as hostages and sent them away to Jerusalem. He then travelled through the country as far as Damascus. (1 Maccabees 11, 62)
If you send a hundred talents of silver and two of his sons as hostages, to make sure that on his release he does not revolt against us, we shall release him.' (1 Maccabees 13, 16)
but Simon gave him this answer, 'We have not taken foreign territory or any alien property but have occupied our ancestral heritage, for some time unjustly wrested from us by our enemies; (1 Maccabees 15, 33)
now that we have a favourable opportunity, we are merely recovering our ancestral heritage. (1 Maccabees 15, 34)
accept this sacrifice on behalf of all your people Israel, and protect your heritage and consecrate it. (2 Maccabees 1, 26)
'The same document also describes how the prophet, warned by an oracle, gave orders for the tent and the ark to go with him, when he set out for the mountain which Moses had climbed to survey God's heritage. (2 Maccabees 2, 4)
God, who has saved his whole people, conferring heritage, kingdom, priesthood and sanctification on all of us, (2 Maccabees 2, 17)
