1 Maccabees 13:51-53

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁵¹ And they entered into it the three and twentieth day of the second month, in the year one hundred and seventy-one, with thanksgiving, and branches of palm trees, and harps, and cymbals, and psalteries, and hymns, and canticles, because the great enemy was destroyed out of Israel.

⁵² And he ordained that these days should be kept every year with gladness.

⁵³ And he fortified the mountain of the temple that was near the castle, and he dwelt there himself, and they that were with him.