Verses with the word holding in the Apocrypha (5 verses):
1 Esdras 5:72
But the heathen of the land lying heavy upon the inhabitants of Judea, and holding them strait, hindered their building;
2 Maccabees 3:20
And all, holding their hands toward heaven, made supplication.
2 Maccabees 7:10
After him was the third made a mocking stock: and when he was required, he put out his tongue, and that right soon, holding forth his hands manfully.
2 Maccabees 15:12
And this was his vision: That Onias, who had been high priest, a virtuous and a good man, reverend in conversation, gentle in condition, well spoken also, and exercised from a child in all points of virtue, holding up his hands prayed for the whole body of the Jews.
2 Maccabees 15:15
Whereupon Jeremias holding forth his right hand gave to Judas a sword of gold, and in giving it spake thus,
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