1 Maccabees 10:7-9

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised

⁷ Then Jonathan came to Jerusalem and read the letter in the hearing of all the people and of those in the citadel. ⁸ They were greatly alarmed when they heard that the king had given him authority to recruit troops. ⁹ But those in the citadel released the hostages to Jonathan, and he returned them to their parents.