1 Maccabees 7:34-40
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34 But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spake proudly,
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35 And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.
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36 Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
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37 Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:
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38 Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
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39 So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him.
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40 But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,