1 Maccabees 7:37
“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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1 Maccabees 7:37 Context
35And swore in his wrath, saying, vnlesse Iudas and his hoste be now deliuered into my hands, if euer I come againe in safetie, I will burne vp this house: and with that he went out in a great rage. 36Then the priests entred in, and stood before the altar, and the Temple, weeping, and saying, 37Thou O Lord didst choose this house, to be called by thy Name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people. 38Be auenged of this man and his hoste, and let them fall by the sword: Remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer. 39So Nicanor went out of Ierusalem, & pitched his tents in Bethoron, where an hoste out of Syria met him.
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