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When the Gentiles round about heard that the altar had been rebuilt and the sanctuary consecrated as before, they were very angry. (1 Maccabees 5, 1)
that they had pulled down the Abomination which he had built upon the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded with high walls both the sanctuary, as it had been before, and his city of Beth-zur. (1 Maccabees 6, 7)
The beasts were distributed along the phalanxes, each elephant having assigned to it a thousand men in coats of mail, with bronze helmets, and five hundred picked cavalry. (1 Maccabees 6, 35)
When the sun shone on the gold and bronze shields, the mountains gleamed with their brightness and blazed like flaming torches. (1 Maccabees 6, 39)
The priests, however, went in and stood before the altar and the sanctuary. They wept and said: (1 Maccabees 7, 36)
and this is a copy of the reply they inscribed on bronze tablets and sent to Jerusalem, to remain there with the Jews as a record of peace and alliance: (1 Maccabees 8, 22)
they sent him inscribed tablets of bronze to renew with him the friendship and alliance that they had established with his brothers Judas and Jonathan. (1 Maccabees 14, 18)
He and his brothers and his father's house have stood firm and repulsed Israel's enemies. They have thus preserved its liberty." So they made an inscription on bronze tablets, which they affixed to pillars on Mount Zion. (1 Maccabees 14, 26)
It was decreed that this inscription should be engraved on bronze tablets, to be set up in a conspicuous place in the precincts of the temple, (1 Maccabees 14, 48)
We shall be celebrating the purification of the temple on the twenty-fifth day of the month Chislev, so we thought it right to inform you, that you too may celebrate the feast of Booths and of the fire that appeared when Nehemiah, the rebuilder of the temple and the altar, offered sacrifices. (2 Maccabees 1, 18)
When our fathers were being exiled to Persia, devout priests of the time took some of the fire from the altar and hid it secretly in the hollow of a dry cistern, making sure that the place would be unknown to anyone. (2 Maccabees 1, 19)
As soon as this was done, a flame blazed up, but its light was lost in the brilliance cast from a light on the altar. (2 Maccabees 1, 32)