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2 Maccabees 6:2
New American Bible (Revised Edition)

2 also to profane the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus,[a] and the one on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Host to Strangers, as the local inhabitants were wont to be.(A)

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  1. 6:2 Olympian Zeus: equated with the Syrian Baal Shamen (“the lord of the heavens”), a term which the Jews mockingly rendered as shiqqus shomem, “desolating abomination” (Dn 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; 1 Mc 1:54).
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