1 Maccabees 1:35-39

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:

³⁶ For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel.

³⁷ Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it:

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.

³⁹ Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt.