1 Maccabees 1:35-37

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³⁵they stored up arms and food, and collecting the spoils of Jerusalem they stored them there, and became a great snare.

³⁶It became an ambush against the sanctuary,
an evil adversary of Israel continually.
³⁷On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood;
they even defiled the sanctuary.

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