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For when the leader reached Persia with a force that seemed irresistible, they were cut to pieces in the temple of Nanea by a deception employed by the priests of Nanea. (2 Maccabees 1, 13)
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)
Since on the twenty-fifth day of Chislev we shall celebrate the purification of the temple, we thought it necessary to notify you, in order that you also may celebrate the feast of booths and the feast of the fire given when Nehemiah, who built the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
It was also made clear that being possessed of wisdom Solomon offered sacrifice for the dedication and completion of the temple. (2 Maccabees 2, 9)
The story of Judas Maccabeus and his brothers, and the purification of the great temple, and the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)
and recovered the temple famous throughout the world and freed the city and restored the laws that were about to be abolished, while the Lord with great kindness became gracious to them -- (2 Maccabees 2, 22)
it came about that the kings themselves honored the place and glorified the temple with the finest presents, (2 Maccabees 3, 2)
But a man named Simon, of the tribe of Benjamin, who had been made captain of the temple, had a disagreement with the high priest about the administration of the city market; (2 Maccabees 3, 4)
And he said that it was utterly impossible that wrong should be done to those people who had trusted in the holiness of the place and in the sanctity and inviolability of the temple which is honored throughout the whole world. (2 Maccabees 3, 12)
they praised the Lord who had acted marvelously for his own place. And the temple, which a little while before was full of fear and disturbance, was filled with joy and gladness, now that the Almighty Lord had appeared. (2 Maccabees 3, 30)
But Menelaus, thinking he had obtained a suitable opportunity, stole some of the gold vessels of the temple and gave them to Andronicus; other vessels, as it happened, he had sold to Tyre and the neighboring cities. (2 Maccabees 4, 32)
As a result, they wounded many of them, and killed some, and put them all to flight; and the temple robber himself they killed close by the treasury. (2 Maccabees 4, 42)