1 Maccabees 2:13

13 Why should we live any longer?"

1 Maccabees 2:13 In-Context

11 All her adornment has been taken away. She is no longer free, but is instead a slave.

12 Look! Our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have all been destroyed. The Gentiles have trampled them.

13 Why should we live any longer?"

14 Then Mattathias and his sons tore their clothes and put on mourning clothes, and they lamented.

15 At that time, the king's officers were enforcing the decrees to give up Jewish practice. They came to the town of Modein to make its people offer pagan sacrifice.