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what an ambush laid about the holy place, what devil’s work against Israel! (1 Maccabees 1, 38)
And, for the more profanation of the sanctuary, and of Israel’s holy people, (1 Maccabees 1, 49)
and die they must, because they would not break God’s holy law. (1 Maccabees 1, 66)
In those days it was that Mattathias came forward, son of John, son of Simeon, a priest of Joarib’s family; he was for Jerusalem no more, but would take up his dwelling on the hill-side at Modin. (1 Maccabees 2, 1)
Alas, what needed it, cried Mattathias, I should have been born into such an age as this? To see my people and the holy city alike brought to ruin, to sit by while the enemy overcame her, (1 Maccabees 2, 7)
Meanwhile, the life of Mattathias was drawing to an end. And this charge he gave to his sons: Here be days when tyrant and blasphemer have their will, when all is calamity and bitter retribution. (1 Maccabees 2, 49)
And here is Judas Machabaeus, from boyhood’s days a warrior; let him be your leader, and fight Israel’s battles. (1 Maccabees 2, 66)
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)
and for eight days together they celebrated the altar’s renewal, burned victim and brought welcome-offering with glad and grateful hearts. (1 Maccabees 4, 56)
