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2 Maccabees 6:2-4
Good News Translation
2 Maccabees 6:2-4
Good News Translation
2 He was also to defile their Temple by dedicating it to the Olympian god Zeus.[a] The temple on Mount Gerizim was to be officially named
Temple of Zeus the God of Hospitality, as the people who lived there had requested.
3 The oppression was harsh and almost intolerable. 4 Gentiles filled the Temple with drinking parties and all sorts of immorality. They even had intercourse with prostitutes there. Forbidden objects were brought into the Temple,
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- 2 Maccabees 6:2 zeus: The supreme god of the Greeks; Mount Olympus was thought to be his home.
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