1 Maccabees 1:26-38
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26 So that the princes and elders mourned, the virgins and young men were made feeble, and the beauty of women was changed.
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27 Every bridegroom took up lamentation, and she that sat in the marriage chamber was in heaviness,
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28 The land also was moved for the inhabitants thereof, and all the house of Jacob was covered with confusion.
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29 And after two years fully expired the king sent his chief collector of tribute unto the cities of Juda, who came unto Jerusalem with a great multitude,
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30 And spake peaceable words unto them, but all was deceit: for when they had given him credence, he fell suddenly upon the city, and smote it very sore, and destroyed much people of Israel.
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31 And when he had taken the spoils of the city, he set it on fire, and pulled down the houses and walls thereof on every side.
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32 But the women and children took they captive, and possessed the cattle.
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33 Then builded they the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with mighty towers, and made it a strong hold for them.
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34 And they put therein a sinful nation, wicked men, and fortified themselves therein.
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35 They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem, they laid them up there, and so they became a sore snare:
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36 For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.
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37 Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:
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38 Insomuch that the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them: whereupon the city was made an habitation of strangers, and became strange to those that were born in her; and her own children left her.