1 Maccabees 4:38
“And 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,”
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1 Maccabees 4:38 Context
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, 40And fell downe flat to the ground vpon their faces, and blew an alarme with the trumpets, and cried towards heauen.
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And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;
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