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When the priests of the temple of Nanea had set out the treasures and Antiochus had come with a few men inside the wall of the sacred precinct, they closed the temple as soon as he entered it. (2 Maccabees 1, 15)
the king investigated the matter, and enclosed the place and made it sacred. (2 Maccabees 1, 34)
And Jeremiah came and found a cave, and he brought there the tent and the ark and the altar of incense, and he sealed up the entrance. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and besides brought in things for sacrifice that were unfit. (2 Maccabees 6, 4)
While they were celebrating the victory in the city of their fathers, they burned those who had set fire to the sacred gates, Callisthenes and some others, who had fled into one little house; so these received the proper recompense for their impiety. (2 Maccabees 8, 33)
and they tore down the altars which had been built in the public square by the foreigners, and also destroyed the sacred precincts. (2 Maccabees 10, 2)
They purified the sanctuary, and made another altar of sacrifice; then, striking fire out of flint, they offered sacrifices, after a lapse of two years, and they burned incense and lighted lamps and set out the bread of the Presence. (2 Maccabees 10, 3)
and to levy tribute on the temple as he did on the sacred places of the other nations, and to put up the high priesthood for sale every year. (2 Maccabees 11, 3)
Then under the tunic of every one of the dead they found sacred tokens of the idols of Jamnia, which the law forbids the Jews to wear. And it became clear to all that this was why these men had fallen. (2 Maccabees 12, 40)
Keep the king's command, and because of your sacred oath be not dismayed; (Ecclesiastes 8, 2)
For a blameless man was quick to act as their champion; he brought forward the shield of his ministry, prayer and propitiation by incense; he withstood the anger and put an end to the disaster, showing that he was thy servant. (Wisdom of Solomon 18, 21)
He chose him out of all the living to offer sacrifice to the Lord, incense and a pleasing odor as a memorial portion, to make atonement for the people. (Ecclesiasticus 46, 16)