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CITADEL

The fortified portion of a city or a palace. It was in such quarters of the king’s house (palace) at Samaria that Pekah killed Azariah, king of Judah (2 Kgs. 15:25), and at Tirzah where Zimri commited suicide (1 Kgs. 16:18). 1 Macc. 13:50 describes Simon’s liberating the Jerusalem citadel from enemy hands and “cleansing the citadel from its pollution.” According to Josephus the Hasmonean kings renamed it the Baris (Ant. 18.91). Rebuilt by Herod the Great and named the Tower of Antonia, it fell to the Romans in 70 c.e. Some scholars think that the house of the Philippian jailer was situated in Philippi’s citadel (Acts 16:34). Ps. 48:3, 13(MT 4, 14) celebrates the security of Jerusalem, praising God for having “shown himself a sure defense.”

Henry L. Carrigan, Jr.






Eerdmans Dictionary of the Bible (2000)

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