1 Maccabees 4:45
“They thought it best to pull it downe, lest it should be a reproch to them, because the heathen had defiled it; wherefore they pulled it downe,”
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1 Maccabees 4:45 Context
43Who cleansed the Sanctuarie, and bare out the defiled stones into an vncleane place. 44And when as they consulted what to doe with the altar of burnt offrings which was prophaned, 45They thought it best to pull it downe, lest it should be a reproch to them, because the heathen had defiled it; wherefore they pulled it downe, 46And laide vp the stones in the mountaine of the temple in a conuenient place, vntill there should come a Prophet, to shew what should be done with them. 47Then they tooke whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar, according to the former:
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They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
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