1 Maccabees 3:43

1 Maccabees 3:43 Context

⁴¹And the merchants of the countrey, hearing the fame of them, tooke siluer, & gold very much, with seruants, and came into the campe to buy the children of Israel for slaues; A power also of Syria, and of the land of the Philistines, ioyned themselues vnto them. ⁴²Now when Iudas and his brethren saw that miseries were multiplied, & that the forces did encampe themselues in their borders, (for they knewe how the king had giuen commaundement to destroy the people, and vtterly abolish them.) ⁴³They said one to another, Let vs restore the decayed estate of our people, and let vs fight for our people and the Sanctuarie. ⁴⁴Then was the Congregation gathered together, that they might be ready for battell, and that they might pray, and aske mercy and compassion. ⁴⁵Now Ierusalem lay voide as a wildernesse, there was none of her children that went in or out: the Sanctuarie also was troden downe, and aliens kept the strong holde: the heathen had their habitation in that place, and ioy was taken from Iacob, and the pipe with the harpe ceased.

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