1 Maccabees 4:37

1 Maccabees 4:37 Context

³⁵Now when Lysias saw his armie put to flight, and the manlinesse of Iudas souldiers, and how they were ready, either to liue or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and hauing made his armie greater then it was, he purposed to come againe into Iudea. ³⁶Then saide Iudas and his brethren, behold our enemies are discomfited: let vs goe vp to cleanse, and dedicate the Sanctuarie. ³⁷Upon this all the host assembled themselues together, and went vp into mount Sion. ³⁸And when they saw the sanctuarie desolate, and the altar prophaned, and the gates burnt vp, and shrubs growing in the courts, as in a forrest, or in one of the mountaines, yea and the priests chambers pulled downe, ³⁹They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes vpon their heads,

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