1 King Darius of the Persians and the Medes, he succeeded him as king. (He had previously become king of Greece.)
2He fought many battles, conquered strongholds, and slaughtered the kings of the earth.
3 became an ambush against the sanctuary,
an evil adversary of Israel at all times.
37 “And whoever does not obey the command of the king shall die.”
51 2 Macc 5.22; 6.8 In such words he wrote to his whole kingdom. He appointed inspectors over all the people and commanded the towns of Judah to offer sacrifice, town by town.
52Many of the people, everyone who forsook the law, joined them, and they did evil in the land;
531 Macc 2.31; 2 Macc 6.11; Heb 11.38they drove Israel into hiding in every place of refuge they had.
54 Dan 11.31; 1 Macc 2.12; 6.7; 2 Macc 6.2; 10.5 Now on the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty-fifth year, they erected a desolating sacrilege on the altar of burnt offering. They also built altars in the surrounding towns of Judah
55and offered incense at the doors of the houses and in the streets.
56The books of the law that they found they tore to pieces and burned with fire.
57Anyone found possessing the book of the covenant or anyone who adhered to the law was condemned to death by decree of the king.
58They kept using violence against Israel, against those who were found month after month in the towns.
591 Macc 2.12; 4.52; 2 Macc 10.5On the twenty-fifth day of the month they offered sacrifice on the altar that was on top of the altar of burnt offering.
602 Macc 6.10According to the decree, they put to death the women who had their children circumcised
61and their families and those who circumcised them, and they hung the infants from their mothers’ necks.
62But many in Israel stood firm and were resolved in their hearts not to eat unclean food.
632 Macc 6.19; 7.1–42They chose to die rather than to be defiled by food or to profane the holy covenant, and they did die.
64Very great wrath came upon Israel.
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