1 Maccabees 6:7

7 also that they had pulled down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.

1 Maccabees 6:7 In-Context

5 Moreover, there came one who brought him tidings in Persia that the armies which went against the land of Judea were put to flight,

6 and that Lysias, who went forth first with a great power, was driven away by the Jews, and that they were made strong by the arms and power and store of spoils which they had gotten from the armies whom they had destroyed;

7 also that they had pulled down the abomination which he had set up upon the altar in Jerusalem, and that they had compassed about the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and his city Beth-zur.

8 Now when the king heard these words, he was astonished and sorely moved; whereupon he lay down upon his bed and fell sick from grief, because it had not befallen him as he looked for.

9 And there he continued many days, for his grief was ever more and more, and he took account that he should die.