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 snare.

36 It became an ambush against the sanctuary, an evil adversary of Israel continually.

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 as a desert; her feasts were turned into mourning, her sabbaths into a reproach, her honor into contempt.