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So those who had defended the cause of the city, the people and the sacred vessels were executed at once. (2 Maccabees 4, 48)
With his unclean hands, Antiochus seized the sacred vessels, and with impious hands took away what other kings had given as gifts for the glory and honor of the Temple. (2 Maccabees 5, 16)
The Temple was profaned by the orgies of the pagans who went there to have a good time with prostitutes, and had intercourse in the sacred enclosures. And besides, they brought into the Temple things not permitted by the Law; (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
So I shall leave an excellent example to the young, dying voluntarily and valiantly for the sacred and holy laws." Having said this, he gave himself over to death. (2 Maccabees 6, 28)
He ordered that the Sacred Book be read, and he gave them their watchword "Help from God"; then, he himself led the first battalion, and fell on Nicanor. (2 Maccabees 8, 23)
Moreover, he who before had refused burial to the Jews and wished to throw them with their children to the wild beasts, now offered to make them equal with the Athenians. He had plundered the temple and profaned the Sacred Place; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
but now he promised to decorate it lavishly, to return a great number of the sacred vessels, and to pay for all the expenses of the sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
They destroyed the altars built by the foreigners in the public squares, as well as the sacred enclosures. (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
Whoever robbed any sacred thing or committed any other notorious crime was brought up to the tower, and then, pushed into the ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 6)
This was indeed a just punishment for him who had committed so many offenses against the Altar whose fire and ashes were sacred; and so, he met his death in ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
A certain Alcimus, who had been High Priest before, but was disgraced during the time of the rebellion, realized that there was no way for him to be restored to the ministry at the sacred altar. (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
Then they blessed Heaven saying, "Blessed be he who did not let his Sacred House be defiled!" (2 Maccabees 15, 34)
