1 Maccabees 1:38DRA
Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 38 of 67
"And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel."
In context
36And they placed there a sinful nation, wicked men, and they fortified themselves therein: and they stored up armour, and victuals, and gathered together the spoils of Jerusalem;
37And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.
38And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.
39And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place.
40And the inhabitants of Jerusalem fled away by reason of them, and the city was made the habitation to strangers, and she became a stranger to her own seed, and her children forsook her.