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1 Maccabees 3:45 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Jerusalem was without inhabitant like a wilderness. There was none of her offspring who went in or went out. The sanctuary was trampled down. Children of foreigners were in the citadel. The Gentiles lived there. Joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased. "

1 Maccabees 3:45

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43 Then they each said to his neighbor, “Let’s repair the ruins of our people. Let’s fight for our people and the holy place.”

44 The congregation was gathered together, that they might be ready for battle, and that they might pray and ask for mercy and compassion.

45 Jerusalem was without inhabitant like a wilderness. There was none of her offspring who went in or went out. The sanctuary was trampled down. Children of foreigners were in the citadel. The Gentiles lived there. Joy was taken away from Jacob, and the pipe and the harp ceased.

46 They gathered themselves together, and came to Mizpeh, near Jerusalem; for in Mizpeh there used to be a place of prayer for Israel.

47 They fasted that day, put on sackcloth, put ashes on their heads, tore their clothes,

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1 Maccabees 1:38

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"The inhabitants of Jerusalem fled because of them. She became a habitation of foreigners. She became foreign to those who were born in her, and her children forsook her."

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1 Maccabees 14:36

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1 Maccabees 3:1

"His son Judas, who was called Maccabaeus, rose up in his place."

1 Maccabees 3:2

"All his kindred helped him, and so did all those who joined with his father, and they fought with gladness the battle of Israel."

1 Maccabees 3:3

"He got his people great glory, and put on a breastplate like a giant, and bound his warlike harness around him, and set battles in array, protecting the army with his sword."

1 Maccabees 3:4

"He was like a lion in his deeds, and like a lion’s cub roaring for prey."

1 Maccabees 3:5

"He hunted and pursued the lawless, and he burned up those who troubled his people."

1 Maccabees 3:6

"The lawless shrunk back for fear of him, and all the workers of lawlessness were very troubled, and deliverance prospered in his hand."

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