1 Maccabees 1:34-42
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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.
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39 Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.
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40 As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning.
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41 Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
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42 And every one should leave his laws: so all the heathen agreed according to the commandment of the king.