1 Maccabees 4:45-47

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

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: