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In those days there went out of Israel wicked men, and they persuaded many, saying: Let us go, and make a covenant with the heathens that are round about us: for since we departed from them, many evils have befallen us. (1 Maccabees 1, 12)
And they made themselves prepuces, and departed from the holy covenant, and joined themselves to the heathens, and were sold to do evil. (1 Maccabees 1, 16)
And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place. (1 Maccabees 1, 39)
Her sanctuary was desolate like a wilderness, her festival days were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into reproach, her honours were brought to nothing. (1 Maccabees 1, 41)
And should prohibit the sabbath, and the festival days, to be celebrated. (1 Maccabees 1, 48)
And he commanded the holy places to be profaned, and the holy people of Israel. (1 Maccabees 1, 49)
And they would not break the holy law of God, and they were put to death: (1 Maccabees 1, 66)
In those days arose Mathathias the son of John, the son of Simeon, a priest of the sons of Joarib, from Jerusalem, and he abode in the mountain of Modin. (1 Maccabees 2, 1)
And Mathathias said: Woe is me, wherefore was I born to see the ruin of my people, and the ruin of the holy city, and to dwell there, when it is given into the hands of the enemies? (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
The holy places are come into the hands of strangers: her temple is become as a man without honour. (1 Maccabees 2, 8)
Now the days drew near that Mathathias should die, and he said to his sons: Now hath pride and chastisement gotten strength, and the time of destruction, and the wrath of indignation: (1 Maccabees 2, 49)
And they brought the priestly ornaments, and the firstfruits and tithes, and stirred up the Nazarites that had fulfilled their days: (1 Maccabees 3, 49)
