2 Maccabees 6:1DRA

Catholic Bible · DRA · Verse 1 of 31

"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 Maccabees 6:1

In context

1But 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:

2And 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.

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

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