2 Maccabees 10:4

4 After they had done these things, they bowed to the ground and pleaded with the Lord that they would not experience such misfortunes again, but if they should ever sin, they would be disciplined by him with fairness and not turned over to slanderous and barbaric nations.

2 Maccabees 10:4 In-Context

2 They demolished the altars that the foreigners built near the marketplace, as well as the sacred precincts.

3 They cleansed the temple and made another altar. Then they struck flints to make fire and they offered up sacrifices after a lapse of two years, and they prepared incense, lamps, and the sacred loaves.

4 After they had done these things, they bowed to the ground and pleaded with the Lord that they would not experience such misfortunes again, but if they should ever sin, they would be disciplined by him with fairness and not turned over to slanderous and barbaric nations.

5 On the anniversary of the temple's defilement by foreigners, on that very day, the sanctuary was purified, on the twenty-fifth of the month, which is Kislev.

6 They celebrated eight days with cheer in a manner like the Festival of Booths, remembering how during the previous Festival of Booths they had been roaming about in mountains and caverns like animals.