2 Maccabees 10:1–8

Now Maccabeus and his company, the Lord guiding them, ^arecovered the temple and the city: ²but the altars which the heathen had built in the open street, and also ^bthe chapels, they pulled down. ³And having cleansed the temple ^cthey made another altar, and ^dstriking stones they took fire out of them, and offered a sacrifice after ^etwo years, and ^fset forth incense, and lights, and shewbread. ⁴When that was done, ^ffthey fell flat down, and besought the Lord that they might come no more into such troubles; but if they sinned any more against him, that ^ghe himself would chasten them with mercy, and that they might not be delivered unto the blasphemous and barbarous nations. ⁵Now ^hupon the same day that the strangers profaned the temple, on the very same day it was cleansed again, even the five and twentieth day of the same month, which is ⁱCasleu. ⁶And they kept ^jeight days with gladness, as in ^kthe feast of the tabernacles, remembering that not long afore they had held the feast of the tabernacles, when as they wandered in the mountains and dens like beasts. ⁷Therefore they bare ^lbranches, and ^mfair boughs, and ^mpalms also, and sang ⁿpsalms unto him that had given them good success in cleansing his place. ^8oThey ordained also by a common statute and decree, That every year those days should be kept of the whole nation of the Jews.