39 and they tore their clothes, and made great lamentation, and put ashes upon their heads,
40 and fell on their faces to the ground, and blew with the solemn trumpets, and cried toward heaven.
41 Then Judas appointed certain men to fight against those that were in the citadel, until he should have cleansed the holy place.
42 And he chose blameless priests, such as had pleasure in the law:
43 and they cleansed the holy place, and bare out the stones of defilement into an unclean place.
44 And they took counsel concerning the altar of burnt offerings, which had been profaned, what they should do with it:
45 and there came into their mind a good counsel, that they should pull it down, lest it should be a reproach to them, because the Gentiles had defiled it: and they pulled down the altar,