2 Maccabees 6:3

2 Maccabees 6:3 Context

¹Not long after this, the king sent an olde man of Athens, to compell the Iewes to depart from the lawes of their fathers, and not to liue after the Lawes of God: ²And to pollute also the Temple in Ierusalem, and to call it the Temple of Iupiter Olympius: and that in Garizim, of Iupiter the defender of strangers, as they did desire that dwelt in the place. ³The comming in of this mischiefe was sore and grieuous to the people: ⁴For the Temple was filled with riot and reuelling, by the Gentiles, who dallied with harlots, and had to doe with women within the circuit of the holy places, and besides that, brought in things that were not lawfull. ⁵The Altar also was filled with profane things, which the Law forbiddeth.

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