2 Maccabees 10:2-4

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

² But he threw down the altars, which the heathens had set up in the streets, as also the temples of the idols.

³ And having purified the temple, they made another altar: and taking fire out of the fiery stones, they offered sacrifices after two years, and set forth incense, and lamps, and the loaves of proposition.

⁴ And when they had done these things, they besought the Lord, lying prostrate on the ground, that they might no more fall into such evils; but if they should at any time sin, that they might be chastised by him more gently, and not be delivered up to barbarians and blasphemous men.