1Now Maccabeus and his company, Yahuah (God) guiding them, recovered the temple and the city:
2But the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also the chapels, they pulled down.
3And having cleansed the temple they made another altar, and striking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after two years, and set forth incense, and lights, and shewbread.
4When that was done, they fell flat down, and besought Yahuah (God) that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that he himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered to the blasphemous and barbarous nations.