³¹ “·The king of the North will send his army [^LForces from him will arise] to ·make the Temple in Jerusalem unclean [^Lprofane the Holy Place and fortress]. They will ·stop the people from offering [^Lturn aside] the ·daily [regular] sacrifice [8:12], and then they will set up a ·blasphemous object that brings destruction [^Labomination of desolation; ^Ca pagan object, perhaps a meteorite dedicated to Zeus, would be placed in the holy place; Matt. 24:15; Mark 13:14; also 1 Maccabees 1:44–47, 54 in the Apocrypha].