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1 Maccabees 1:35-37
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 1:35-37
New Catholic Bible
35 storing up arms and provisions, and depositing there the plunder they had collected from Jerusalem. Thus they posed a significant threat.
36 The citadel became an ambush against the sanctuary,
an evil adversary for Israel at all times.
37 They spilled innocent blood all around the sanctuary,
and even defiled the sanctuary itself.
