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When he entered a city called Persepolis, and tried to plunder the temple and seize the city, its inhabitants rebelled and took up arms against him. This people threw Antiochus and his men out. They fled and returned very much humiliated. (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
Then the Lord who sees all, the God of Israel, punished him with an incurable sickness of an internal nature. (2 Maccabees 9, 5)
And the wretch made a vow to the Lord who would no longer take pity on him. (2 Maccabees 9, 13)
Moreover, he who before had refused burial to the Jews and wished to throw them with their children to the wild beasts, now offered to make them equal with the Athenians. He had plundered the temple and profaned the Sacred Place; (2 Maccabees 9, 15)
With God's help Maccabeus and his men seized the Temple and the city. (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
After purifying the Temple, they built a new altar. They kindled fire from flint and for the first time in two years offered sacrifices. Once again, there were incense, lamps, and the bread of presence. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
Having done all this they threw themselves flat on the ground and asked the Lord not to send them such calamities anymore. But if they should sin again, they asked that he would correct them with gentleness and not hand them over again into the hands of blasphemous and ferocious foreigners. (2 Maccabees 10, 4)
The purification of the Temple took place on the same date on which the foreigners had profaned it, that is, on the twenty-fifth of the month of Chislev. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
The men of Maccabeus, after praying and asking the Lord to come and fight at their side, attacked the fortresses of the Idumeans. (2 Maccabees 10, 16)
Right at daybreak, they attacked from both sides. One side placed their confidence in their Lord as the pledge of success and victory besides their bravery, while the others were moved by hatred. (2 Maccabees 10, 28)
When all this was over, they chanted hymns and praises to the Lord who had exalted Israel and had given them victory. (2 Maccabees 10, 38)
to convert the Temple into a source of revenue, as they had done with other sanctuaries of the pagans, and to put the office of high priest up for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
