2 Maccabees 6:5DRA
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"The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws."
Im Kontext
3And very bad was this invasion of evils and grievous to all.
4For 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.
5The altar also was filled with unlawful things, which were forbidden by the laws.
6And neither were the sabbaths kept, nor the solemn days of the fathers observed, neither did any man plainly profess himself to be a Jew.
7But they were led by bitter constraint on the king’s birthday to the sacrifices: and when the feast of Bacchus was kept, they wore compelled to go about crowned with ivy in honour of Bacchus.