1 Not long after this, the king sent out an old man of Athens to compel the Jews to depart from the laws of their fathers and not to live by the laws of God, (WEB) 2 and also to pollute the sanctuary in Jerusalem and to call it by the name of Olympian Zeus, and to call the sanctuary in Gerizim by the name of Zeus the Protector of foreigners, even as the people who lived in that place did. (WEB) 3 The visitation of this evil was harsh and utterly grievous. (WEB)
2 Maccabees 6:1–3
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1 Maccabees 2:5–7
5 Eleazar, who was called Avaran; and Jonathan, who was called Apphus. (WEB) 6 He saw the blasphemies that were committed in Judah and in Jerusalem, (WEB) 7 and he said, “Woe is me! Why was I born to see the destruction of my people and the destruction of the holy city, and to d… (WEB)
1 Maccabees 1:43–45
43 Many of Israel consented to his worship, sacrificed to the idols, and profaned the Sabbath. (WEB) 44 The king sent letters by the hand of messengers to Jerusalem and the cities of Judah, that they should follow laws strange to the land, (WEB) 45 and should forbid whole burnt off… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 8:16–18
16 So Maccabaeus gathered his men together, six thousand in number, and exhorted them not to be frightened by the enemy, nor to fear the great multitude of the heathen who came wrongfully against them, but to fight nobly, (WEB) 17 setting before their eyes the outrage tha… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 4:12–14
12 For he eagerly established a gymnasium under the citadel itself, and caused the noblest of the young men to wear the Greek hat. (WEB) 13 Thus there was an extreme of hellenization, and an advance of a foreign religion, by reason of the exceeding profaneness of Jason, w… (WEB)
2 Maccabees 13:8–10
8 for inasmuch as he had perpetrated many sins against the altar, whose fire and whose ashes were holy, he received his death in ashes. (WEB) 9 Now the king, infuriated in spirit, was coming with intent to inflict on the Jews the very worst of the sufferings that had be… (WEB)
1 Esdras 1:48–50
48 After King Nabuchodonosor had made him to swear by the name of the Lord, he broke his oath and rebelled. Hardening his neck and his heart, he transgressed the laws of the Lord, the God of Israel. (WEB) 49 Moreover the governors of the people and of the priests did many… (WEB)
Prayer of Azariah 1:8–10
8 Wherefore all that thou hast brought upon us, and every thing that thou hast done to us, thou hast done in true judgment. (KJV) 9 And thou didst deliver us into the hands of lawless enemies, most hateful forsakers of God, and to an unjust king, and the most wicked in… (KJV) 10 … (KJV)
4 Maccabees 4:20–22
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