ion.

4:38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and
the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or
on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.

4:39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put
ashes on their heads:

4:40. And they fell down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded
with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.

4:41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the
castle, till they had cleansed the holy places,

4:42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the
law of God.

4:43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that
had been defiled into an unclean place.

4:44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been
profaned, what he should do with it.

4:45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it
should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so
they threw it down.

4:46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple, in a
convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer
concerning them.

4:47. Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new
altar, according to the former:

4:48. And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within
the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.

4:49. And they made new holy vessels, and brought in the candlestick,
and the altar of incense, and the table, into the temple.

4:50. And they put incense upon the altar, and lighted up the lamps that
were upon the candlestick, and they gave light in the temple.

4:51. And they set the loaves upon the table, and hung up the veils, and
finished all the works that they had begun to make.

4:52. And they arose before the morning on the five and twentieth day of
the ninth month, (which is the month of Casleu) in the hundred and
forty-eighth year.

4:53. And they offered sacrifice, according to the law, upon the new
altar of holocausts which they had made.

4:54. According to the time, and according to the day wherein the
heathens had defiled it, in the same was it dedicated anew with
canticles, and harps, and lutes, and cymbals.

4:55. And all the people fell upon their faces, and adored, and blessed
up to heaven, him that had prospered them.

4:56. And they kept the dedication of the altar eight day