1 Maccabees 1:37 Context

³⁵They stored it also with armour and victuals, and when they had gathered together the spoiles of Ierusalem, they layd them vp there, and so they became a sore snare: ³⁶For it was a place to lie in wait against the Sanctuary, and an euill aduersary to Israel. ³⁷Thus they shed innocent blood on euery side of the Sanctuary, and defiled it. ³⁸In so much that the inhabitants of Ierusalem fledde because of them, whereupon [the citie] was made an habitation of strangers, & became strange to those that were borne in her, and her owne children left her: ³⁹Her Sanctuary was laid waste like a wildernesse, her feasts were turned into mourning, her Sabbaths into reproch, her honour into contempt.

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