1 Maccabees 7:37
Good News Translation
"Lord, you chose this Temple to bear your name and to be a place of prayer and intercession for your people.

New Revised Standard Version
“You chose this house to be called by your name, and to be for your people a house of prayer and supplication.

Contemporary English Version
"You have chosen this temple as the place where your people must worship in your name.

New American Bible
“You have chosen this house to bear your name, to be a house of prayer and supplication for your people.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called upon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for thy people.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called upon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for thy people.

1 Maccabees 7:35
And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas and his army be delivered into my hands, as soon as ever I return in peace, I will burn this house. And he went out in a great rage.

1 Maccabees 7:36
And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar and the temple: and weeping, they said:

1 Maccabees 7:38
Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

1 Maccabees 7:39
Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem, and encamped near to Bethoron: and an army of Syria joined him.

Context
1 Maccabees 7
36And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar and the temple: and weeping, they said: 37Thou, O Lord, hast chosen this house for thy name to be called upon therein, that it might be a house of prayer and supplication for thy people. 38Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.…
Cross References
1 Maccabees 7:35
And swore in anger, saying: Unless Judas and his army be delivered into my hands, as soon as ever I return in peace, I will burn this house. And he went out in a great rage.

1 Maccabees 7:36
And the priests went in, and stood before the face of the altar and the temple: and weeping, they said:

1 Maccabees 7:38
Be avenged of this man, and his army, and let them fall by the sword: remember their blasphemies, and suffer them not to continue any longer.

1 Maccabees 7:39
Then Nicanor went out from Jerusalem, and encamped near to Bethoron: and an army of Syria joined him.



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1 Maccabees 7:36
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