1 Maccabees 4:36-44
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36 Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.
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37 Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
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38 And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;
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39 They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
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40 And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
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41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
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42 So he chose priests of blameless conversation, such as had pleasure in the law:
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43 Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.
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44 And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;