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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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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 who were in the fortress until he had cleansed the sanctuary.
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So he chose priests of blameless conduct, such as had pleasure in the law,
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