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And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests' chambers pulled down;
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They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
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And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
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Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
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So he chose priests of blameless conversation, such as had pleasure in the law:
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Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.
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And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;
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They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
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And laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, until there should come a prophet to shew what should be done with them.
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Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former;
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And made up the sanctuary, and the things that were within the temple, and hallowed the courts.