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Here is a copy of the rescript which they engraved on bronze tablets and sent to Jerusalem to be kept there by the Jews as a record of peace and alliance: (1 Maccabees 8, 22)
they wrote to him on bronze tablets to renew the treaty of friendship and alliance which they had made with his brothers, Judas and Jonathan, (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
He stood firm, he and his brothers and his father's house: he fought off the enemies of Israel and secured its freedom.' So they recorded an inscription on bronze tablets and set it up on pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
'So, be it now enacted: that this record be inscribed on bronze tablets and be erected at some conspicuous place within the precincts of the Temple, (1 Maccabees 14, 48)
'As we shall be celebrating the purification of the Temple on the twenty-fifth of Chislev, we consider it proper to notify you, so that you too may celebrate it, as you do the feast of Shelters and the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the builder of the Temple and the altar, offered sacrifice. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
For when our ancestors were being deported to Persia, the devout priests of the time took some of the fire from the altar and hid it secretly in a hole like a dry well, where they concealed it in such a way that the place was unknown to anyone. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
and when this was done a flame flared up, to be absorbed in a corresponding blaze of light from the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)
On his arrival, Jeremiah found a cave-dwelling, into which he put the tent, the ark and the altar of incense, afterwards blocking up the entrance. (2 Maccabees 2, 5)
The story of Judas Maccabaeus and his brothers, the purification of the great Temple, the dedication of the altar, (2 Maccabees 2, 19)
the priests in their sacred vestments prostrated themselves before the altar and prayed to Heaven, to the Author of the law governing deposits, to preserve these funds intact for the depositors. (2 Maccabees 3, 15)
that the priests ceased to show any interest in serving the altar; but, scorning the Temple and neglecting the sacrifices, they would hurry, on the stroke of the gong, to take part in the distribution, forbidden by the Law, of the oil on the exercise ground; (2 Maccabees 4, 14)
The altar of sacrifice was loaded with victims proscribed by the law as profane. (2 Maccabees 6, 5)