1 Maccabees 4:45-47

Good News Translation

⁴⁵ by the Gentiles, and decided to tear it down, so that it would not stand there as a monument to their shame. So they tore down the altar ⁴⁶ and put the stones in a suitable place on the Temple hill, where they were to be kept until a prophet should appear and decide what to do with them. ^47 (A)Then they took uncut stones, as the Law of Moses required, and built a new altar like the old one.