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• Two years later the king sent the Mysarch through the cities of Judah. He came to Jerusalem with an impressive force, (1 Maccabees 1, 29)

• and addressing them with what appeared to be peaceful words, he gained their confidence; then suddenly he fell on the city, dealing it a terrible blow, and destroying many of the people of Israel. (1 Maccabees 1, 30)

• He pillaged the city and set it on fire, tore down its houses and encircling wall, (1 Maccabees 1, 31)

• There they installed a brood of sinners, of renegades, who fortified themselves inside it, (1 Maccabees 1, 34)

• storing arms and provisions, and depositing there the loot they had collected from Jerusalem; they were to prove a great trouble. (1 Maccabees 1, 35)

• It became an ambush for the sanctuary, an evil adversary for Israel at all times. (1 Maccabees 1, 36)

• The citizens of Jerusalem fled because of them, she became a dwelling-place of strangers; estranged from her own offspring, her children forsook her. (1 Maccabees 1, 38)

• Her sanctuary became as forsaken as a desert, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into a mockery, her honour into reproach. (1 Maccabees 1, 39)

• Her dishonour now fully matched her former glory, her greatness was turned into grief. (1 Maccabees 1, 40)

• All the gentiles conformed to the king's decree, (1 Maccabees 1, 42)

• The king also sent edicts by messenger to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, directing them to adopt customs foreign to the country, (1 Maccabees 1, 44)

• building altars, shrines and temples for idols, sacrificing pigs and unclean beasts, (1 Maccabees 1, 47)