1 Maccabees 4:43-45

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

⁴³ And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that had been defiled into an unclean place.

⁴⁴ And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.

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.