But because you graciously bestowed your glory upon your people Israel is literally “But since you took pleasure in your glory among your people Israel.” This clause may be rendered “Yet you kindly let your glory stay with your people, the Israelites.”

You sanctified this place: God made the Temple fit for himself to be worshiped there. Sanctified is the opposite of “defilement” and “profanation” in the next verse that refer to making the Temple unfit for worship. So we may render this clause as “and so made this Temple a place fit to worship you.”

Quoted with permission from Bullard, Roger A. and Hatton, Howard A. A Handbook on 3-4 Maccabees. (UBS Helps for Translators). Miami: UBS, 2018. For this and other handbooks for translators see here.