1 Maccabees 1:37

37 On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 1:37 In-Context

35 they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great menace,

36 for the citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel at all times.

37 On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary.

38 Because of them the residents of Jerusalem fled; she became a dwelling of strangers; she became strange to her offspring, and her children forsook her.

39 Her sanctuary became desolate like a desert; her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into a reproach, her honor into contempt.