and in what way he had pillaged all their temples and brought them to nothing.
Therefore they were exceedingly afraid of him, and were troubled for Jerusalem and for the temple of the Lord their God.
For they were newly-returned from the captivity, and all the people of Judea had only recently gathered together; and the vessels and the altar and the house had been sanctified after the profanation.
Therefore they sent into all the coasts of Samaria and the villages, and to Bethoron and Belmen and Jericho, and to Choba and Esora, and to the valley of Salem;