32. Strike them with fear, and cause the boldness of their strength to languish, and let them quake at their own destruction.
33. Cast them down with the sword of them that love thee: and let all that know thy name, praise thee with hymns.
34. And they joined battle: and there fell of the army of Lysias five thousand men.
35. And when Lysias saw that his men were put to flight, and how bold the Jews were, and that they were ready either to live, or to die manfully, he went to Antioch, and chose soldiers, that they might come again into Judea with greater numbers.
36. Then Judas, and his brethren said: Behold our enemies are discomfited: let us go up now to cleanse the holy places and to repair them.
37. And all the army assembled together, and they went up into mount Sion.
38. And they saw the sanctuary desolate, and the altar profaned, and the gates burnt, and shrubs growing up in the courts as in a forest, or on the mountains, and the chambers joining to the temple thrown down.
39. And they rent their garments, and made great lamentation, and put ashes on their heads:
40. And they fell face down to the ground on their faces, and they sounded with the trumpets of alarm, and they cried towards heaven.
41. Then Judas appointed men to fight against them that were in the castle, till they had cleansed the holy places.
42. And he chose priests without blemish, whose will was set upon the law of God:
43. And they cleansed the holy places, and took away the stones that had been defiled into an unclean place.
44. And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.
45. And a good counsel came into their minds, to pull it down: lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it; so they threw it down.
46. And they laid up the stones in the mountain of the temple in a convenient place, till there should come a prophet, and give answer concerning them.
47. Then they took whole stones according to the law, and built a new altar according to the former: