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and also some money of Hyrcanus, son of Tobias, a man of very prominent position, and that it totaled in all four hundred talents of silver and two hundred of gold. To such an extent the impious Simon had misrepresented the facts. (2 Maccabees 3, 11)
The priests prostrated themselves before the altar in their priestly garments and called toward heaven upon him who had given the law about deposits, that he should keep them safe for those who had deposited them. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
For there appeared to them a magnificently caparisoned horse, with a rider of frightening mien, and it rushed furiously at Heliodorus and struck at him with its front hoofs. Its rider was seen to have armor and weapons of gold. (2 Maccabees 3, 25)
that the priests were no longer intent upon their service at the altar. Despising the sanctuary and neglecting the sacrifices, they hastened to take part in the unlawful proceedings in the wrestling arena after the call to the discus, (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
When many acts of sacrilege had been committed in the city by Lysimachus with the connivance of Menelaus, and when report of them had spread abroad, the populace gathered against Lysimachus, because many of the gold vessels had already been stolen. (2 Maccabees 4, 39)
The altar was covered with abominable offerings which were forbidden by the laws. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)
They purified the sanctuary, and made another altar of sacrifice; then, striking fire out of flint, they offered sacrifices, after a lapse of two years, and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the Presence. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
Falling upon the steps before the altar, they besought him to be gracious to them and to be an enemy to their enemies and an adversary to their adversaries, as the law declares. (2 Maccabees 10, 26)
And there, while they were still near Jerusalem, a horseman appeared at their head, clothed in white and brandishing weapons of gold. (2 Maccabees 11, 8)
And this was eminently just; because he had committed many sins against the altar whose fire and ashes were holy, he met his death in ashes. (2 Maccabees 13, 8)
Now a certain Alcimus, who had formerly been high priest but had wilfully defiled himself in the times of separation, realized that there was no way for him to be safe or to have access again to the holy altar, (2 Maccabees 14, 3)
