1 Maccabees 3:44-46

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴⁴ And the assembly was gathered that they might be ready for battle: and that they might pray, and ask mercy and compassion.

⁴⁵ Now Jerusalem was not inhabited, but was like a desert: there was none of her children that went in or out: and the sanctuary was trodden down: and the children of strangers were in the castle, there was the habitation of the Gentiles: and joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and harp ceased there.

⁴⁶ And they assembled together, and came to Maspha over against Jerusalem: for in Maspha was a place of prayer heretofore in Israel.