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Prostrating themselves on the terrace before the altar, they begged him to support them and to show himself the enemy of their enemies, the adversary of their adversaries, as the Law clearly states. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
Deserved justice, this; since he had committed many sins against the altar, the fire and ashes of which were holy, it was in ashes that he met his death. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
A certain Alcimus, a former high priest, had wilfully incurred defilement at the time of the insurrection; realising that whichever way he turned there was no security for him, nor any further access to the holy altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
he stretched out his right hand towards the Temple and swore this oath, 'If you do not hand Judas over to me as prisoner, I shall rase this dwelling of God to the ground, I shall demolish the altar, and on this very spot I shall erect a splendid temple to Dionysus.' (2 Maccabees 14, 33)
When he arrived there himself, he called his countrymen together, stationed the priests in front of the altar and then sent for the people from the Citadel. (2 Maccabees 15, 31)
You have bidden me build a temple on your holy mountain, and an altar in the city where you have pitched your tent, a copy of the holy Tent which you prepared at the beginning. (Wisdom of Solomon 9, 8)
The offering of the upright graces the altar, and its savour rises before the Most High. (Ecclesiasticus 35, 5)
He placed singers before the altar, melodiously to sing; (Ecclesiasticus 47, 9)
when he took his ceremonial robe and put on his magnificent ornaments, when he went up to the holy altar and filled the sanctuary precincts with his grandeur; (Ecclesiasticus 50, 11)
when he received the portions from the hands of the priests, himself standing by the altar hearth, crowned with the circle of his brothers, as a cedar of Lebanon is by its foliage, as though surrounded by the trunks of palm trees. (Ecclesiasticus 50, 12)
He would reach out his hand to the cup and pour a libation of wine, pouring it at the foot of the altar, a fragrance pleasing to the Most High, King of All; (Ecclesiasticus 50, 15)
Then one of the seraphs flew to me, holding in its hand a live coal which it had taken from the altar with a pair of tongs. (Isaiah 6, 6)
