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No wonder if Judas and his brethren, with the whole assembly of Israel, made a decree that this feast should be kept year by year for eight days together, the feast-day of the altar’s dedication.✻ Came that season, from the twenty-fifth day of Casleu onwards, all was to be rejoicing and holiday. (1 Maccabees 4, 59)
Great indignation had the Gentiles that lived round about, when they heard that altar and temple were standing as of old. (1 Maccabees 5, 1)
Glad and merry were men’s hearts as they climbed up Sion mountain, and there offered burnt-sacrifice in thanks for their safe home-coming, with never a life lost.✻ (1 Maccabees 5, 54)
and nothing would serve but they must make a great name for themselves too, by offering battle to the Gentiles round about. (1 Maccabees 5, 57)
gone was that defiling image he had set up over the altar at Jerusalem; high walls, as of old, protected the sanctuary; nay, they had made shift to fortify his own stronghold of Bethsura. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
It was after this that Nicanor made his way to mount Sion, where some of the priests and elders came out to greet him in friendly fashion, and shew him how burnt-sacrifice was offered there on the king’s behalf. (1 Maccabees 7, 33)
and the priests must take themselves back within the walls, where they stood before altar and temple, praying very mournfully. (1 Maccabees 7, 36)
both Azotus and all the neighbouring cities Jonathan burnt and plundered, and Dagon’s temple, with all that took shelter there, was burnt with the rest. (1 Maccabees 10, 84)
When he reached Azotus, here was Dagon’s temple burnt, here was the town itself and all its neighbourhood in ruins; the dead lay unburied, where they fell in battle, or in heaps by the road-side. All this they shewed him, (1 Maccabees 11, 4)
here was Jonathan’s brother Simon taking his place, and offering battle. Envoys were sent out to make his excuses: (1 Maccabees 13, 14)
Nor might they find shelter in the strongholds of the Azotus territory; he burnt these to the ground; a toll of two thousand men he had taken before he returned victorious to Judaea. (1 Maccabees 16, 10)
here was the gateway burnt to the ground, here were innocent lives forfeited. Cried we upon the Lord, and all our prayers were answered; burnt-sacrifice and bloodless offering were made, lamps lighted, and loaves set forth in the temple as of old! (2 Maccabees 1, 8)
