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So fled he with his sons into the hill-country, leaving his possessions behind, there in the city. (1 Maccabees 2, 28)
From city to city he went, ridding Juda of its law-breakers, averting the vengeance guilt of theirs had deserved; (1 Maccabees 3, 8)
Not at Jerusalem; Jerusalem lay there, no city but a desert waste, nor any of her sons came and went; her sanctuary defiled, her citadel garrisoned by the alien, she was but a haunt of the Gentiles. Sad days for the men of Jacob; pipe nor harp sounded there now. (1 Maccabees 3, 45)
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)
Whereupon Judas and his men suddenly turned aside from their course into the desert of Bosor, and took the city; all its men-folk he put to the sword, and carried off the spoil of it, and burned it to the ground. (1 Maccabees 5, 28)
Here was the battle fairly begun; the cry of them went up to heaven, loud as clarion-call, and a great cry, too, was raised within the city. (1 Maccabees 5, 31)
Upon taking the city, he burned its temple to the ground with all that were sheltered in it; so was Carnaim vanquished, and could make head against Juda no more. (1 Maccabees 5, 44)
They journeyed safely as far as Ephron, that was a great city and well fortified, the very gate of Juda; turn to right or left they might not, their road lay through the heart of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 46)
and go to the assault they did, the fighting men of his company. All day and all night they attacked the city, and Judas was given the mastery of it. (1 Maccabees 5, 50)
Never a male creature there but was put to the sword; the city was plundered and pulled down; and so he passed on through the streets of it, all paved with dead men. (1 Maccabees 5, 51)
