1 Maccabees 2:8-18
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8 Her temple is become as a man without glory.
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9 Her glorious vessels are carried away into captivity, her infants are slain in the streets, her young men with the sword of the enemy.
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10 What nation hath not had a part in her kingdom and gotten of her spoils?
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11 All her ornaments are taken away; of a free woman she is become a bondslave.
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12 And, behold, our sanctuary, even our beauty and our glory, is laid waste, and the Gentiles have profaned it.
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13 To what end therefore shall we live any longer?
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14 Then Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, and put on sackcloth, and mourned very sore.
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15 In the mean while the king's officers, such as compelled the people to revolt, came into the city Modin, to make them sacrifice.
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16 And when many of Israel came unto them, Mattathias also and his sons came together.
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17 Then answered the king's officers, and said to Mattathias on this wise, Thou art a ruler, and an honourable and great man in this city, and strengthened with sons and brethren:
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18 Now therefore come thou first, and fulfil the king's commandment, like as all the heathen have done, yea, and the men of Juda also, and such as remain at Jerusalem: so shalt thou and thy house be in the number of the king's friends, and thou and thy children shall be honoured with silver and gold, and many rewards.