1 Maccabees 2:45

⁴⁵ And Mattathias and his friends went around and pulled down the altars. (WEB)

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1 Maccabees 4:42–44

⁴² He chose blameless priests who were devoted to the law; (WEB) ⁴³ and they cleansed the holy place and carried the defiled stones out to an unclean place. (WEB) ⁴⁴ They deliberated what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned. (WEB)

2 Maccabees 10:1–3

¹ Then Maccabaeus and those who were with him, the Lord leading them on, recovered the temple and the city. (WEB) ² They pulled down the altars that had been built in the marketplace by the foreigners, and also the sacred enclosures. (WEB) ³ Having cleansed the sanctuary, they m… (WEB)

1 Maccabees 2:15–17

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1 Maccabees 2:23–25

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1 Maccabees 4:35–37

³⁵ But when Lysias saw that his troops were put to flight, and the boldness that had come upon those who were with Judas, and how they were ready either to live or to die nobly, he withdrew to Antioch, and gathered together hired soldiers, that he might come aga… (WEB)

2 Chronicles 23:16–18

¹⁶ Then Jehoiada made a covenant between himself and the king and the people that they would be the LORD’s people. ¹⁷ So all the people went to the temple of Baal and tore it down. They smashed the altars and idols to pieces and killed Mattan the priest of Baal in f…

1 Maccabees 6:6–8

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2 Chronicles 30:13–15

¹³ In the second month, a very great assembly gathered in Jerusalem to celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ¹⁴ They proceeded to remove the altars in Jerusalem and to take away the incense altars and throw them into the Kidron Valley. ¹⁵ And on the fourteenth day of…

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