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For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit. (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
They besought the Lord to look upon the people who were oppressed by all, and to have pity on the temple which had been profaned by ungodly men, (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
And Ptolemy promptly appointed Nicanor the son of Patroclus, one of the king's chief friends, and sent him, in command of no fewer than twenty thousand Gentiles of all nations, to wipe out the whole race of Judea. He associated with him Gorgias, a general and a man of experience in military service. (2 Maccabees 8, 9)
Now Maccabeus and his followers, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city; (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Accordingly, since we choose that this nation also be free from disturbance, our decision is that their temple be restored to them and that they live according to the customs of their ancestors. (2 Maccabees 11, 25)
Then Judas marched against Carnaim and the temple of Atargatis, and slaughtered twenty-five thousand people. (2 Maccabees 12, 26)
But when Judas heard of this, he ordered the people to call upon the Lord day and night, now if ever to help those who were on the point of being deprived of the law and their country and the holy temple, (2 Maccabees 13, 10)
So, committing the decision to the Creator of the world and exhorting his men to fight nobly to the death for the laws, temple, city, country, and commonwealth, he pitched his camp near Modein. (2 Maccabees 13, 14)
and went to King Demetrius in about the one hundred and fifty-first year, presenting to him a crown of gold and a palm, and besides these some of the customary olive branches from the temple. During that day he kept quiet. (2 Maccabees 14, 4)
with orders to kill Judas and scatter his men, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the greatest temple. (2 Maccabees 14, 13)
When the latter became aware that he had been cleverly outwitted by the man, he went to the great and holy temple while the priests were offering the customary sacrifices, and commanded them to hand the man over. (2 Maccabees 14, 31)
