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Two years later the king sent the Mysarch through the cities of Judah. He came to Jerusalem with an impressive force, (1 Maccabees 1, 29)
and addressing them with what appeared to be peaceful words, he gained their confidence; then suddenly he fell on the city, dealing it a terrible blow, and destroying many of the people of Israel. (1 Maccabees 1, 30)
He pillaged the city and set it on fire, tore down its houses and encircling wall, (1 Maccabees 1, 31)
There they installed a brood of sinners, of renegades, who fortified themselves inside it, (1 Maccabees 1, 34)
storing arms and provisions, and depositing there the loot they had collected from Jerusalem; they were to prove a great trouble. (1 Maccabees 1, 35)
It became an ambush for the sanctuary, an evil adversary for Israel at all times. (1 Maccabees 1, 36)
The citizens of Jerusalem fled because of them, she became a dwelling-place of strangers; estranged from her own offspring, her children forsook her. (1 Maccabees 1, 38)
Her sanctuary became as forsaken as a desert, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into a mockery, her honour into reproach. (1 Maccabees 1, 39)
Her dishonour now fully matched her former glory, her greatness was turned into grief. (1 Maccabees 1, 40)
All the gentiles conformed to the king's decree, (1 Maccabees 1, 42)
The king also sent edicts by messenger to Jerusalem and the towns of Judah, directing them to adopt customs foreign to the country, (1 Maccabees 1, 44)
building altars, shrines and temples for idols, sacrificing pigs and unclean beasts, (1 Maccabees 1, 47)