1 Maccabees 3:45
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45 Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness;
not one of her children went in or out.
The sanctuary was trampled down,
and strangers held the citadel;
it was a lodging place for the nations.
Joy was taken from Jacob;
the flute and the harp ceased to play.(A)
1 Maccabees 4:41
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41 Then Judas detailed men to fight against those in the citadel until he had cleansed the sanctuary.(A)
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1 Maccabees 6:18
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18 Meanwhile the garrison in the citadel kept hemming Israel in around the sanctuary. They were trying in every way to harm them and strengthen the nations.(A)
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1 Maccabees 6:26
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26 And see, today they have encamped against the citadel in Jerusalem to take it; they have fortified both the sanctuary and Beth-zur;(A)
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1 Maccabees 14:36
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36 In his days things prospered in his hands, so that the nations were put out of the[a] country, as were also those in the city of David in Jerusalem, who had built themselves a citadel from which they used to sally forth and defile the environs of the sanctuary, doing great damage to its purity.(A)
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