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2 Maccabees 6:2
New Catholic Bible
2 Maccabees 6:2
New Catholic Bible
2 He was also instructed to profane the temple in Jerusalem and dedicate it to Olympian Zeus,[a] and to dedicate the sanctuary on Mount Gerizim to Zeus the Hospitable, as had been requested by the people who inhabited that place.
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- 2 Maccabees 6:2 Olympian Zeus: he had his counterpart in the Syrian Baal-shomem (“the Lord of the heavens”), which the Jews translated as “the abomination that causes desolation” (1 Mac 1:54; Dan 11:31; 12:11).
