1 Maccabees
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1 Maccabees 7:37
“Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people:”
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1 Maccabees 7:37 Context
34But he mocked them, and laughed at them, and abused them shamefully, and spake proudly, 35And sware in his wrath, saying, Unless Judas and his host be now delivered into my hands, if ever I come again in safety, I will burn up this house: and with that he went out in a great rage. 36Then the priests entered in, and stood before the altar and the temple, weeping, and saying, 37Thou, O Lord, didst choose this house to be called by thy name, and to be a house of prayer and petition for thy people: 38Be avenged of this man and his host, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer. 39So Nicanor went out of Jerusalem, and pitched his tents in Bethhoron, where an host out of Syria met him. 40But Judas pitched in Adasa with three thousand men, and there he prayed, saying,
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