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When the surrounding nations heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary restored to what it had been before, they became very angry (1 Maccabees 5, 1)
and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem, had encircled the sanctuary with high walls as in the past, and had fortified Beth-Zur, one of his cities. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
Then he went off in a fury. At this, the priests went in again, and stood weeping in front of the altar and the Temple, saying, (1 Maccabees 7, 36)
'As we shall be celebrating the purification of the Temple on the twenty-fifth of Chislev, we consider it proper to notify you, so that you too may celebrate it, as you do the feast of Shelters and the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the builder of the Temple and the altar, offered sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
For when our ancestors were being deported to Persia, the devout priests of the time took some of the fire from the altar and hid it secretly in a hole like a dry well, where they concealed it in such a way that the place was unknown to anyone. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
and when this was done a flame flared up, to be absorbed in a corresponding blaze of light from the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
On his arrival, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling, into which he put the tent, the ark and the altar of incense, afterwards blocking up the entrance. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
The story of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the great Temple, the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)
the priests in their sacred vestments prostrated themselves before the altar and prayed to Heaven, to the Author of the law governing deposits, to preserve these funds intact for the depositors. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but, scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
The altar of sacrifice was loaded with victims proscribed by the law as profane. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
They purified the sanctuary and built another altar; then, striking fire from flints and using this fire, they offered the first sacrifice for two years, burning incense, lighting the lamps and setting out the loaves. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
