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up against a far superior army of
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Antiochus IV Epiphanes
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they beat them, they retook Jerusalem
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they didn't actually beat them in Syria
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they just beat them several battles in Judea
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and Judas was able to recapture jerusalem and the temple.
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In the year 164, they cleansed the temple of the profanation
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the pollution of having maybe pigs and things like that sacrificed
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it being polluted as a Greek temple
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and so 164 is the beginning of the celebration of
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the Jewish holiday Hanukkah
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The Hanukkah song now