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1 Maccabees 1:41-43
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 1:41-43
New Catholic Bible
41 The Great Persecution.[a] Then the king issued an edict to his whole kingdom that all of his subjects should become a united people, 42 with each nation abandoning its particular customs. All the Gentiles accepted the decree of the king, 43 and many among the Israelites adopted his religion, sacrificing to idols and profaning the Sabbath.
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- 1 Maccabees 1:41 King Antiochus IV Epiphanes adds sacrileges as the zenith of his doings, erecting at the heart of the temple of Jerusalem, on the very altar of holocausts, an altar to Zeus, the great god of the pagans: this is the abomination that causes desolation (Dan 9:27; 11:31). We are in early December 167 B.C. The people of the covenant are obliged to choose: to become pagan or to suffer violence.
