1 Maccabees 4:41

41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those who were in the fortress until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

1 Maccabees 4:41 In-Context

39 they rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,

40 and fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.

41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those who were in the fortress until he had cleansed the sanctuary.

42 So he chose priests of blameless conduct, such as had pleasure in the law,

43 who cleansed the sanctuary and bore the defiled stones into an unclean place.