Holy Scripture
1 Maccabees 7:37
Source: Septuagint
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37Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:
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35and swore in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage.
36Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying,
— 1 Maccabees 7:37 —
38be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.
39So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Beth-horon, where a host out of Syria met him.