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Episode: The Temple Re-Dedicated! 12/26/2019!
Description: 1 Maccabees 4:36-39
[36]Then said Judas and his brethren, Behold, our enemies are discomfited: let us go up to cleanse and dedicate the sanctuary.
[37]Upon this all the host assembled themselves together, and went up into mount Sion.
[38]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;
[39]They rent their clothes, and made great lamentation, and cast ashes upon their heads,