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And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
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And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:
40
And they fell face down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
41
Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places.
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And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God:
43
And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that had been defiled into an unclean place.
44
And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.
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And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down.
46
And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer concerning them.
47
Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former:
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And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within the temple: and they sanctified the temple, and the courts.