The whole country was reduced to a desert, Susa was plundered and razed to the ground, the royal sepulchres were desecrated, and the images of the gods and of 32 kings "in silver, gold, bronze and alabaster," were carried away.
An eastern lady chapel dates from c. 1410, but the upper part is modern, for the chapel was long desecrated.
When Judas reconquered Jerusalem and re-dedicated the desecrated Temple, his work, from the Pharisees' point of view, was done.
They were hunted down and killed as animals, their sacred sites desecrated and their beliefs derided.
Private Johnson had not only desecrated the statue of their Goddess, he had also desecrated the woman who played the Goddess.
