1 Maccabees 4:44
43. Who cleansed the sanctuary, and bare out the defiled stones into an unclean place.44. And when as they consulted what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which was profaned;45. They thought it best to pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the heathen had defiled it: wherefore they pulled it down,
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