Good News Translation
and put the stones in a suitable place on the Temple hill, where they were to be kept until a prophet should appear and decide what to do with them.

New Revised Standard Version
and stored the stones in a convenient place on the temple hill until a prophet should come to tell what to do with them.

Contemporary English Version
They piled them in a special place on the temple hill, believing that God would someday send a prophet who would know what to do with them.

New American Bible
They stored the stones in a suitable place on the temple mount, until the coming of a prophet who could determine what to do with them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

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.

1 Maccabees 4:44
And he considered about the altar of holocausts that had been profaned, what he should do with it.

1 Maccabees 4:45
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.

1 Maccabees 4:47
Then they took whole stones, according to the law and built a new altar, according to the former:

1 Maccabees 4:48
And they built up the holy places, and the things that were within the temple: and they sanctified the temple and the courts.