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And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
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And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:
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And they fell face down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
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Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places.
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And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God: