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Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight and the manliness of Judas' soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antioch and gathered together a company of strangers and, having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
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Then said Judas and his brethren, "Behold, our enemies are discomfited. Let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary."
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Upon this, all the host assembled themselves together and went up onto Mount Zion.
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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 as on 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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