1 Maccabees 3:49

49 They also brought out the priestly garments as well as early produce and tenth-part gifts. They stirred up nazirites, who had completed the duration of their solomn promises.

1 Maccabees 3:49 In-Context

47 They fasted for a day and put on mourning clothes, sprinkled ashes on their heads, and tore their garments.

48 In addition, they opened up the Law scroll to find answers to the kinds of questions Gentiles would ask of their idols.

49 They also brought out the priestly garments as well as early produce and tenth-part gifts. They stirred up nazirites, who had completed the duration of their solomn promises.

50 Then they cried aloud to heaven: "What should we do with these people? Where should we take them?

51 Your sanctuary is trampled and degraded. Your priests mourn in humiliation.