¹² The proposal pleased their fellow Jews.

²² He also took the table that was used for the sacred bread, drink-offering cups, bowls, gold censers, a curtain, crowns, and the gold decoration on the front of the temple. He stripped it all.

⁵⁷ If anyone was caught in possession of a copy of the covenant scroll or if anyone kept to the Law, that person was condemned to death by royal decree.

⁵⁹ On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar built over the altar for entirely burned offerings.

⁶³ They chose to die rather than to be defiled by the food or to dishonor the holy covenant. And they did die. ⁶⁴ A great anger came against Israel.