2 Maccabees 6:1-6

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

6 But not long after the king sent a certain old man of Antioch, to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and of God:

² And to defile the temple that was in Jerusalem, and to call it the temple of Jupiter Olympius: and that in Gazarim of Jupiter Hospitalis, according as they were that inhabited the place.

³ And very bad was this invasion of evils and grievous to all.

⁴ For the temple was full of the riot and revellings of the Gentiles: and of men lying with lewd women. And women thrust themselves of their accord into the holy places, and brought in things that were not lawful.

⁵ The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.

⁶ And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.