1 Maccabees 4:41

41 Then Judas detailed men to fight against those in the citadel until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 4:41 In-Context

39 Then they rent their clothes, and mourned with great lamentation, and sprinkled themselves with ashes.

40 They fell face down on the ground, and sounded the signal on the trumpets, and cried out to Heaven.

41 Then Judas detailed men to fight against those in the citadel until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

42 He chose blameless priests devoted to the law,

43 and they cleansed the sanctuary and removed the defiled stones to an unclean place.