2 Maccabees 5:20

20 And therefore the place itself, which was partaker with them in the adversities that happened to the nation, afterward participated in the benefits sent from the Lord; and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up in all glory.

2 Maccabees 5:20 In-Context

18 For had they not been formerly wrapped in many sins, this man would haved forthwith been scourged and turned back from his presumption as soon as he had come, as Heliodorus was, whom Seleucus the king sent to view the treasury.

19 Nevertheless God did not choose the people for the place's sake, but the place for the people's sake.

20 And therefore the place itself, which was partaker with them in the adversities that happened to the nation, afterward participated in the benefits sent from the Lord; and as it was forsaken in the wrath of the Almighty, so again, the great Lord being reconciled, it was set up in all glory.

21 So when Antiochus had carried out of the temple a thousand and eight hundred talents, he departed with all haste unto Antioch, believing in his pride to make the land navigable and the sea passable on foot; such was the haughtiness of his mind!

22 And he left governors to vex the nation: at Jerusalem, Philip, by his country a Phrygian, and in manners more barbarous than he that set him there;