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2 Maccabees 6:2 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did. "

2 Maccabees 6:2

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1 Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God,

2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did.

3 The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous.

4 For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate.

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1 Maccabees 1:46

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"They have sent some to Jerusalem, because they also that dwell there have done this thing, to bring them permission from the council of elders."

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2 Maccabees 6:1

"Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God,"

2 Maccabees 6:3

"The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous."

2 Maccabees 6:4

"For the temple was filled with debauchery and reveling by the heathen, who dallied with prostitutes, and had intercourse with women within the sacred precincts, and moreover brought inside things that were not appropriate."

2 Maccabees 6:5

"The altar was filled with those abominable things which had been prohibited by the laws."

2 Maccabees 6:6

"A man could neither keep the Sabbath, nor observe the feasts of their ancestors, nor so much as confess himself to be a Jew."

2 Maccabees 6:7

"On the day of the king’s birth every month, they were led along with bitter constraint to eat of the sacrifices. When the feast of Dionysia came, they were compelled to go in procession in honor of Dionysus, wearing wreaths of ivy."

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