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1 Maccabees 9:54 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" And in the one hundred fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He also pulled down the works of the prophets. "

1 Maccabees 9:54

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52 He fortified the city Bethsura, Gazara, and the citadel, and put troops and stores of food in them.

53 He took the sons of the chief men of the country for hostages, and put them under guard in the citadel at Jerusalem.

54 And in the one hundred fifty-third year, in the second month, Alcimus gave orders to pull down the wall of the inner court of the sanctuary. He also pulled down the works of the prophets.

55 He began to pull down. At that time was Alcimus stricken, and his works were hindered; and his mouth was stopped, and he was taken with a palsy, and he could no more speak anything and give orders concerning his house.

56 Alcimus died at that time with great torment.

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1 Maccabees 6:7

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"and that they had pulled down the abomination which he had built upon the altar that was in Jerusalem, and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls, as before, and also Bethsura, his city."

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2 Maccabees 14:13

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"giving him written instructions to kill Judas himself and to scatter those who were with him, and to set up Alcimus as high priest of the great temple."

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2 Kings 23:12

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"The king broke down the altars that were on the roof of the upper room of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the LORD’s house, and beat them down from there, and cast their dust into the brook Kidron."

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1 Maccabees 9:1

"Demetrius heard that Nicanor had fallen with his forces in battle, and he sent Bacchides and Alcimus again into the land of Judah a second time, and the right wing of his army with them."

1 Maccabees 9:2

"They went by the way that leads to Gilgal, and encamped against Mesaloth, which is in Arbela, and took possession of it, and killed many people."

1 Maccabees 9:3

"The first month of the one hundred fifty-second year, they encamped against Jerusalem."

1 Maccabees 9:4

"Then they marched away and went to Berea with twenty thousand infantry and two thousand cavalry."

1 Maccabees 9:5

"Judas was encamped at Elasa with three thousand chosen men."

1 Maccabees 9:6

"They saw the multitude of the forces, that they were many, and they were terrified. Many slipped away out of the army. There were not left of them more than eight hundred men."

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