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 made another altar of sacrifice. Striking flint and starting a fire, they offered sacrifices after they had ceased for two years, burned incense, lit lamps, and set out the show bread. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 10:1–3
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1 Maccabees 2:44–46
44 They mustered an army, and struck sinners in their anger, and lawless men in their wrath. The rest fled to the Gentiles for safety. (WEB) 45 And Mattathias and his friends went around and pulled down the altars. (WEB) 46 They forcibly circumcised the boys who were uncircumcised,… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 4:42–44
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1 Maccabees 4:52–54
52 They rose up early in the morning, on the twenty-fifth day of the ninth month, which is the month Chislev, in the one hundred forty eighth year, (WEB) 53 and offered sacrifice according to the law on the new altar of burnt offerings which they had made. (WEB) 54 At the time and… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 6:6–8
6 and that Lysias went first with a strong army and was put to shame before them, and that they had grown strong because of weapons, power, and a supply of plunder which they took from the armies that they had cut off, (WEB) 7 and that they had pulled down the abominati… (WEB)
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)
1 Maccabees 4:48–50
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1 Maccabees 5:43–45
43 Then he crossed over against them first, and all the people after him; and all the Gentiles were defeated before his face, and threw away their weapons, and fled to the temple at Carnaim. (WEB) 44 They took the city and burned the temple with fire, together with all wh… (WEB)
1 Esdras 5:50–52
50 Some people joined them out of the other nations of the land, and they erected the altar upon its own place, because all the nations of the land were hostile to them and oppressed them; and they offered sacrifices at the proper times and burnt offerings to th… (WEB)
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