OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 4:43

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and they cleansed the holy place and carried the defiled stones out to an unclean place.

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Verse 43. Defiled. Altars, temples, and statues of false gods made of stone, and set up in the temple, (Calmet. 1:50. Worthington.) and before the houses, (2 B. 10:1) were now demolished and thrown into the vale of Cedron. 2 Chronicles 29:16.

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