1 Maccabees 2:13

13 Why should we live any longer?"

1 Maccabees 2:13 In-Context

11 All her adornment has been taken away; no longer free, she has become a slave.

12 And behold, our holy place, our beauty, and our glory have been laid waste; the Gentiles have profaned it.

13 Why should we live any longer?"

14 And Mattathias and his sons rent their clothes, put on sackcloth, and mourned greatly.

15 Then the king's officers who were enforcing the apostasy came to the city of Modein to make them offer sacrifice.