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Nor might all this content him; with Menelaus for his guide, that was traitor to faith and folk, what must he do but make his way into God’s temple, holier in all the world is none? (2 Maccabees 5, 15)
Antiochus, then, came away from the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents the richer; and back he went to Antioch, all at reckless speed; he had a mind to sail his fleet over the plain, march his troops across the sea, his heart so swelled with pride in his doings. (2 Maccabees 5, 21)
The temple at Jerusalem must be profaned, and dedicated now to Jupiter Olympius; as for the temple on Garizim, the Samaritans were to call it, as well they might,✻ after Jupiter the god of strangers. (2 Maccabees 6, 2)
All riot and revelry the temple became, once the Gentiles had it; here was dallying with harlots, and women making their way into the sacred precincts, and bringing in of things abominable; (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
And ever they besought the Lord, he would look with favour on a race down-trodden, have pity on a temple defiled by the heathen. (2 Maccabees 8, 2)
Nicanor’s purpose it was, to sell the Jewish people for slaves, and thereby reimburse the king for a tribute of two thousand talents he must needs pay to Rome. (2 Maccabees 8, 10)
Where were the Jewish captives that should have paid off the tribute to Rome? He was fain to confess, now, that the Jews had God himself for their protector, and, would they but keep his laws, there was no conquering them! (2 Maccabees 8, 36)
He had made his way into the city they call Persepolis, thinking to plunder its temple and of itself have the mastery; but the common folk ran to arms and routed him. So he was a man defeated and disgraced (2 Maccabees 9, 2)
And for that sacred temple he had stripped bare, with choice gifts he would enrich it, furnishing it as never before, and defraying, from his own purse, all the cost of its sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 9, 16)
Meanwhile, God aiding, Machabaeus and his followers had recovered both temple and city. (2 Maccabees 10, 1)
and the temple was purged of its defilement. They made a fresh altar, struck fire from flint, and offered sacrifice again after two years’ intermission; rose incense, burned lamp, loaves were set out on the sacred table once more. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
It so fell out, that the temple was purified on the twenty-fifth day of Casleu, the very time of its profanation by the Gentiles. (2 Maccabees 10, 5)
