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1 Maccabees 1:54
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1 Maccabees 1:54
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54 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah(A)
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2 Maccabees 6:2
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2 Maccabees 6:2
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2 also to pollute the temple in Jerusalem and to call it the temple of Olympian Zeus and to call the one in Gerizim Zeus-the-Friend-of-Strangers, as the people who live in that place are known.(A)
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2 Maccabees 6:5
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2 Maccabees 6:5
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5 The altar was covered with abominable offerings that were forbidden by the laws.(A)
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