OLD TESTAMENT

1 Maccabees 1:54

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54

On the fifteenth day of Chislev, in the one hundred forty fifth year, they built an abomination of desolation upon the altar, and in the cities of Judah on every side they built idol altars.

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circa B.Calmet. 168. See 2 Maccabees 5:11.

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The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.

EXPLANATION

The two words rendered altar are different in the Greek: and so in 1 Maccabees 1:59.

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