Good News Translation
Innocent people were murdered around the altar; the Holy Place was defiled by murderers.

New Revised Standard Version
On every side of the sanctuary they shed innocent blood; they even defiled the sanctuary.

Contemporary English Version
They killed innocent people all around the temple, and they made it unfit as a place of worship.

New American Bible
They stored up weapons and provisions, depositing there the plunder they had collected from Jerusalem, and they became a great snare.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.

And laid them up there: and they became a great snare.

1 Maccabees 1:35
And they built the city of David with a great and strong wall, and with strong towers, and made it a fortress for them:

1 Maccabees 1:36
And 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;

1 Maccabees 1:38
And this was a place to lie in wait against the sanctuary, and an evil devil in Israel.

1 Maccabees 1:39
And they shed innocent blood round about the sanctuary, and defiled the holy place.