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2 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 6:1-2
New Catholic Bible
Chapter 6
Pagan Cults Are Installed. 1 Not long afterward, the king sent an Athenian senator to force the Jews to forsake the laws of their ancestors and to live no longer in accordance with the laws of God. 2 He was also instructed to profane the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus,[a] and to dedicate the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Hospitable, as had been requested by the people who inhabited that place.
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- 2 Maccabees 6:2 Olympian Zeus: he had his counterpart in the Syrian Baal-shomem (“the Lord of the heavens”), which the Jews translated as “the abomination that causes desolation” (1 Mac 1:54; Dan 11:31; 12:11).
