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4:30. And they saw that the army was strong, and he prayed and said:
Blessed art thou, O Saviour of Israel, who didst break the violence of
the mighty by the hand of thy servant David, and didst deliver up the
camp of the strangers into the hands of Jonathan the son of Saul, and of
his armour bearer.
4:31. Shut up this army in the hands of thy people Israel, and let them
be confounded in their host and their horsemen. 32 Strike them with
fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them
quake at their own destruction.
4:33. Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all
that know thy name praise thee with hymns.
4:34. And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five
thousand men.
4:35. And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold
the Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die
manfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come
again into Judea with greater numbers.
4:36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are
discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places, and to repair
them.
4:37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into Mount
Sion.
4:38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and
the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or
on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
4:39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put
ashes on their heads:
4:40. And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded
with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
4:41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the
castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,
4:42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the
law of God.
4:43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that
had been defiled into an unclean place.
4:44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been
profaned, what he should do with it.
4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it
should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so
they threw it down.
4:46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a
convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer
concerning them.
4:47. Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new
altar, according to the former:
4:48. And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within
the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.
4:49. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick,
and the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple.
4:50. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that
were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.
4:51. And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and
finished all the works that they had begun to make.
4:52. And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of
the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and
forty-eighth year.
4:53. And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new
altar of holocausts which they had made.
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