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1 Maccabees 4:45 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" A good plan came into their mind, that they should pull it down, lest it would be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it. So they pulled down the altar "

1 Maccabees 4:45

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43 and they cleansed the holy place and carried the defiled stones out to an unclean place.

44 They deliberated what to do with the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned.

45 A good plan came into their mind, that they should pull it down, lest it would be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it. So they pulled down the altar

46 and laid up the stones on the temple hill in a convenient place, until a prophet would come to give an answer concerning them.

47 They took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar like the former.

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