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Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
What saw they? The holy place desolate, the altar profaned, charred gates, courts overgrown with brushwood, like forest clearing or mountain glen, the priests’ lodging in ruins. (1 Maccabees 4, 38)
And what did Judas? First, he sent a force to engage the citadel’s garrison, while the holy place was a-cleansing; (1 Maccabees 4, 41)
incense be put on the altar, lamps kindled to light the holy place, (1 Maccabees 4, 50)
and to the last Judas went ever to and fro, rallying the stragglers and encouraging the people on their journey, till the land of Juda was reached. (1 Maccabees 5, 53)
And now Judas turned aside to Azotus, in the country of the Philistines; altars he pulled down, images of their gods burned to ashes, gave up their cities to plunder, and so came back again to the land of Juda. (1 Maccabees 5, 68)
Past all doubt, here is the source of all those miseries that have come upon me; look you, how I die consumed of grief, in a strange land! (1 Maccabees 6, 13)
Meanwhile, what of the Jews that dwelt about the holy place? Here was the garrison of the citadel hemming them in, seeking ever to do them injury, and to sustain the Gentile cause. (1 Maccabees 6, 18)
With the defenders of Bethsura he had made terms; yield up the city they must, so ill were they victualled for a siege, in a year when the land lay fallow;✻ (1 Maccabees 6, 49)
But it was against the holy place itself that he turned his arms, and long he beleaguered it; what catapults he brought to bear on it, what engines! Flew fiery darts, flew stone and javelin and arrow from mangonel and arbalest, and the slings took their turn. (1 Maccabees 6, 51)
Only a few defenders were left in the holy place now; the rest, overtaken by famine, had dispersed to their homes. (1 Maccabees 6, 54)
was now returned at the head of his army from the land of the Medes and Persians, and would fain take charge of the realm. (1 Maccabees 6, 56)
