Daniel 11:31
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31 Forces sent by him shall occupy and profane the temple and fortress. They shall abolish the regular burnt offering and set up the desolating sacrilege.(A)
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1 Maccabees 2:12
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12 And see, our holy place, our beauty,
and our glory have been laid waste;
the nations have profaned them.(A)
1 Maccabees 6:7
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7 that they had torn down the abomination that he had erected on the altar in Jerusalem; and that they had surrounded the sanctuary with high walls as before, and also Beth-zur, his town.(A)
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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 10:5
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5 It happened that on the same day on which the sanctuary had been profaned by the foreigners, the purification of the sanctuary took place, that is, on the twenty-fifth day of the same month, which was Chislev.(A)
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