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1 Maccabees 1:39-41
New Catholic Bible
1 Maccabees 1:39-41
New Catholic Bible
39 Her sanctuary became as desolate as a desert;
her feasts were turned into mourning,
her sabbaths into reproach,
her honor into contempt.
40 Her dishonor was equal to her former glory,
and her exaltation was turned into mourning.
41 The Great Persecution.[a] Then the king issued an edict to his whole kingdom that all of his subjects should become a united people,
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- 1 Maccabees 1:41 King Antiochus IV Epiphanes adds sacrileges as the zenith of his doings, erecting at the heart of the temple of Jerusalem, on the very altar of holocausts, an altar to Zeus, the great god of the pagans: this is the abomination that causes desolation (Dan 9:27; 11:31). We are in early December 167 B.C. The people of the covenant are obliged to choose: to become pagan or to suffer violence.
