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2 Maccabees 6:1-3
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Chapter 6

Abolition of Judaism. 1 (A)Not long after this the king sent an Athenian senator[a] to force the Jews to abandon the laws of their ancestors and live no longer by the laws of God, 2 also to profane the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus,[b] and the one on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Host to Strangers, as the local inhabitants were wont to be.(B) 3 This was a harsh and utterly intolerable evil.

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  1. 6:1 Athenian senator: or, Geron the Athenian, since geron can also be a proper name.
  2. 6:2 Olympian Zeus: equated with the Syrian Baal Shamen (“the lord of the heavens”), a term which the Jews mockingly rendered as shiqqus shomem, “desolating abomination” (Dn 9:27; 11:31; 12:11; 1 Mc 1:54).
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