The man tried to rip off the cloth, as well as kicking down antique candelabra worth hundreds of thousands of pounds.

But even if it were found nowhere in the Old Testament writings ... prayers of the priest poured forth to the Lord God at his altar the commendation of the dead has its place." ...

The tradition of a sacred area, with an altar and a sacred oak, in the city of Shochem begins in Genesis and reappears from time to time in the Old Testament down to the book of Judges.