1 Maccabees
King James Version (KJV)
1 Maccabees 1:38
“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.”
King James Version (KJV)
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1 Maccabees 1:38 Context
35They 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: 36For it was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil adversary to Israel. 37Thus they shed innocent blood on every side of the sanctuary, and defiled it: 38Insomuch 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. 39Her sanctuary was laid waste like a wilderness, her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach her honour into contempt. 40As had been her glory, so was her dishonour increased, and her excellency was turned into mourning. 41Moreover king Antiochus wrote to his whole kingdom, that all should be one people,
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In so much that the inhabitants of Ierusalem fledde because of them, whereupon [the citie] was made an habitation of strangers, & became strange to those that were borne in her, and her owne children left her:
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