1 Maccabees 4:38
King James VersionSource notes
“And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;”
Context
35Now when Lysias saw his army put to flight, and the manliness of Judas’ soldiers, and how they were ready either to live or die valiantly, he went into Antiochia, and gathered together a company of strangers, and having made his army greater than it was, he purposed to come again into Judea.
36Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.
37Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
38And when they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burned up, and shrubs growing in the courts as in a forest, or in one of the mountains, yea, and the priests’ chambers pulled down;
39They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,
40And fell down flat to the ground upon their faces, and blew an alarm with the trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
41Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the fortress, until he had cleansed the sanctuary.